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Some data losses I had years ago were caused by me wanting to make a backup of much at once and thus waiting for a good moment.

Now I know, messy and imcomplete junk backups are better than no backup.

Don't be afraid of being stigmatized as paranoid data hoarder. I could have prevented several data losses, had I been somewhat more paranoid.

Some data losses I had years ago were caused by me wanting to make a backup of much at once and thus waiting for a good moment. Now I know, messy and imcomplete *junk* backups are better than no backup. Don't be afraid of being stigmatized as paranoid data hoarder. I could have prevented several data losses, had I been somewhat more paranoid.

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I once beat the hell out of a hard drive to get it going again, actually worked. Snuck all of the data out through the ethernet port, was afraid if I shut it off again I'd never get it to work again.

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I am glad it worked for you.

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Me too! It contained just about every single DOS game and console ROM in existence. That was a close one.

After that experience, I set up a mirrored RAID. Hopefully that works out in the long run.

Actually, I should make a 3rd and 4th copy.