{"id":777,"date":"2006-11-15T04:58:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T12:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/b4337d7813ad376259a8b3ec3cdd2449"},"modified":"2006-11-15T04:58:05","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T12:58:05","slug":"top-10-data-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 data disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's a great (but short) piece on the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6147984.stm\">Top 10 data disasters revealed<\/a><\/b> on the BBC website. As the article points out, the storage of critical data is becoming more important now that consumers store their photos, music and other files electronically. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the stories (well, short summaries) here are disturbing. I can't imagine how you would accidentally run over a laptop, or decide that spraying WD-40 into your laptop was a good idea. <\/p>\n<p>It highlights, however, some simple truths. Backups are vital. Having to use mine recently (and I'm really meticulous about my backups), even I found some faults and flaws in the methods used, and curse myself for not verifying the process sooner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=rsIxR1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=rsIxR1\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/49568054\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a great (but short) piece on the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6147984.stm\">Top 10 data disasters revealed<\/a><\/b> on the BBC website. As the article points out, the storage of critical data is becoming more important now that consumers store their photos, music and other files electronically. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the stories (well, short summaries) here are disturbing. I can&#8217;t imagine how you would accidentally run over a laptop, or decide that spraying WD-40 into your laptop was a good idea. <\/p>\n<p>It highlights, however, some simple truths. Backups are vital. Having to use mine recently (and I&#8217;m really meticulous about my backups), even I found some faults and flaws in the methods used, and curse myself for not verifying the process sooner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=rsIxR1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=rsIxR1\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/49568054\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}