Re: Apple2Guide.net wiki: A small problem...

Warren Ernst wrote:

AAACK!

OK, well I guess it is fair to say that all my bitching and moaning
about public backups wasn't without good reason.

And that's all I'll say on the subject.

And Gabriel, don't feel too bad about it. It happens. Like the time I
formatted the D partition of a client's computer instead of the E
partition by accident. Whoa-boy, was that a million laughs.

As for where to go from here: I'm in for $20 to help restore the
backup. If there's no communuity interest in restoring it, then I'm OK
with retyping what I did (it couldn't take more than a couple of
hours...)

Fortunately, the project was still young...

-Warr



Yes, it's a relatively cheap lesson in the fragility of data. I had been planning to contribute to the wiki but hadn't actually started to do so yet, so I'll cough up $5 towards its restoration. I still think it's a great idea, and maybe its custodian will be a tad more safety-conscious as a result of this conflagration?

For example: Gabriel did have local backup files, but they were sitting on his hard drive in a place where they could be accidentally deleted during a standard cleanup (and does that local disk get backed up?). A CD-R would have been a better resting place. The public backups are a great idea too, as interested contributors are likely to salt them away and provide a lot more redundancy than one person's private efforts.

I'm a fine one to talk - my work laptop has wads of vital data on it, never backed up, all utterly vulnerable to a hard disk crash. D'OH

Martin
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