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Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:41:30 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Thanks

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In <200404210547.2446488.6@scoug.com>, on 04/21/04
at 05:47 AM, "Harry Motin" said:

>Well, I hope you see my point. Stuff, unintended, happens while upgrading
>and maintaining computers. A simple little install, and then an
>uninstall, screwed me up. Without a full, recent backup of my system and
>backed up generations of the OS2.INI, OS2SYS.INI and CONFIG.SYS, I would
>have been dead in the water for some length of time and fully
>frustrated.

Agreed. It is unfortunate but my experience is it almost always takes one
bad crash with loss of important, unrecoverable data and significant
recovery time for folks to understand the true importance of a backup and
recovery strategy that really works.

What seems simple on the outside is not always so simple on the inside.
Also, one never knows when something unintended will occur or how long it
will take for the results to be apparent. A simple power fluctuation or
operator malfunction might damage some data that will not be accessed
again for several weeks.

As an engineer, you know that it is impossible to guarantee no failures
and no loss of data ever. All one can do is trade off the time and cost
to recover against the time and cost of backup and recovery.

Regards,

Steven

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