Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:58:40 +0000, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 29 November 2010 16:47:31 Camaleón wrote:
>> Oh, c'mon. There is no need to be a "computer scientist" to care about
>> your data. Not today. You can buy a USB external disk (or DVD media)
>> and put there your beloved files. Even Windows can automate this task
>> for you.
>
> In my experience hoi polloi simply don't understand the value of or need
> for backup. I frequently find people who have data that is very
> important to them, even crucial to their business, who have no backup.
"Important data" and "no data backup" in the same phrase do not
compute :-)
(yep, I know what you wanted to mean here)
> They think of the computer as some sort of incomprehensible magic, not a
> machine whose behaviour can be predicted or analysed, and which can
> fail.
I tend to instruct people who asks me about their computers (mostly my
family -mother, uncle-... and friends) on the convenience of making
periodical backups for their data (images, e-mails, docs, etc...) and how
they can do the job with easy steps (by simply copy/paste a folder into
USB keys, using a DVD or, depending on amount of the data to copy, using
an external disk).
I care of them and I give practical and exact instructions (by e-mail, by
phone...) but I cannot manage all of their computers neither want to
become the "handy-techie-do-it-all-support girl" here :-)
> I'll give you an example. One old lady, whose computing I supported,
> took 'photos of all her holidays, which she looked at often to cheer
> herself up and remind her of a happy experience. These 'photos were
> very valuable to her. I repeatedly advised her to have an off-computer
> copy, instead of having only the one copy on one HDD. (She wiped the
> 'photos from her camera memory card as soon as she had uploaded them.)
>
> One day she messed up her registry to the point where reinstallation was
> essential. She assured me when asked that her precious 'photos were all
> fine and she had off-computer copies of all of them. When, after the
> event, it became obvious that a small percentage of the photos was
> missing, she asked me to install Picasa "because that is where those
> 'photos are".
Re-ouch! The missing photos were stored online? At least she had a happy
ending... this time.
> Don't underestimate the gulf of incomprehension that exists in the
> non-geek world at large.
Yes, and the "gulf" can have the size of a "black hole" O:-)... but you
know how these human-things go after all: unless they lose something
*really* important for them, they won't care about backups, no matter
what you do or tell, they'll simply do... nothing.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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