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Pixar Studio Stories: The Movie Vanishes

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Re: Pixar Studio Stories: The Movie Vanishes

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Post by chops »

There's nothing like that sinking feeling after an accidental delete, disk crash, or otherwise losing data in some form. It's scary, even if you're running backups. Then to find the backups are bad is just about the worst feeling one can get. Then it becomes a treasure hunt through every hard drive in every computer you've ever owned.

Not fun at all. The kind of pain that brings a grown man to tears.

Re: Pixar Studio Stories: The Movie Vanishes

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Post by redcap »

chops wrote: post #2

There's nothing like that sinking feeling after an accidental delete, disk crash, or otherwise losing data in some form. It's scary, even if you're running backups. Then to find the backups are bad is just about the worst feeling one can get. Then it becomes a treasure hunt through every hard drive in every computer you've ever owned. Not fun at all. The kind of pain that brings a grown man to tears.

Indeed. It's one thing to have backups and a backup system, but you need enough contingency planning forethought to test that your backups work on a regular basis - ideally by restoring to a secondary site in the case of catastrophic failure to your primary site (e.g. fire, earthquake).

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Post by robryan »

birger wrote: post #5

so... they actually allow personel to make a copy for personal use from a not-jet released movie? And then they wonder how these things come up on various download sites?

From the sounds of it, it sounded like a pretty high up person? If it were everyone allowed to why would they be so concerned about the one persons copy, wouldn't there be a lot of copies?

Re: Pixar Studio Stories: The Movie Vanishes

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Post by ars »

Backups not working when you need them is very very common.

I've heard, experienced (for a client) and read it so very many times. In fact someone told me that pretty much all backups are useless unless you test them frequently (not just once!).

There are lots of tools that do backups - not so many that check if the backup actually works. This might be a business opportunity for someone.

It's not enough to check if the files wrote successfully - you also have to check that you actually backed up the files you need. And that you didn't miss any.

Something like a full restore with unit tests to make sure you actually have the data you care about.

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