Backups

On the subject of data backups, the economist Brad DeLong has a perfect summary of the reason they’re necessary:

Remember: a machine has no mind: you cannot sense beforehand when it is about to betray you.

This entry was written by David Terrell and posted on January 18, 2005 at 11:12 am and filed under tech. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Christopher Stillson
    Posted January 18, 2005 at 1:47 pm | Permalink

    Oddly relavant…..