Three Catastrophes

Usto-Oran

• RAID redundancy of disks — but two disks failed!
• Used as archive, but no backups!

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Research Group at UMIST (Some years ago!)

• All data and source code on one Solaris server.
• All backed up nightly — but no one checked the backups!

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Thesis MS Word File Corruption

• On a more personal level. . .
• File corrupted; hard copy only; type it all in again!