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International Backup Awareness Day

You may notice that commenting is currently disabled, and many old Coding Horror posts are missing images. That's because, sometime early on Friday, the server this blog is hosted on suffered catastrophic data loss. Here's what happened: 1. The server experienced routine hard drive failure. 2.

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What's Your Backup Strategy?

Jamie Zawinski's public service backup announcement starts off with a bang: Option 1: Learn not to care about your data. Don't save any old email, use a film camera, and only listen to physical CDs and not MP3s. If you have no possessions, you have nothing

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