>This is just yet another absolute truth in the IT business. If you actually do backups on a regular basis, you will NEVER need them. Miss one some day, and guess which one you will need?
> It got me - almost. One of the drives in one of my servers at hme died and my backup was old. Luckily, I was able to get the drive to spin long enough to pull an image off it, and lost nothing. Now, I am once again running my backups on a regular basis.
"Better to have an insurance and not need it, than to need one and not have it". Thus goes the advertisement of an insurance agency.
In the case of backups, there is simply no comparison between the cost of making the backups, and the cost of losing data. Yet, I know many organizations who don't do a backup. Really dangerous. Then, some programmer or computer expert gets contacted: "how do I recover data from a damaged hard disk / from a corrupted database?"
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
