Tao Of Backup: Add To The Wailing Wall

Name:	Your first and last name (or `Anonymous`)
Email:	Your email address (or `Anonymous`)
URL:	http://... Your URL (if any)
City:	Your City or town
Country:	Your country
Year:	Year your data loss occurred (approx)
DaysLost:	Approximate number of days of work lost. (e.g. if two people had been working for six weeks and lost the lot, that's 6 x 5 x 2 = 60). If less than a day, enter 1. If no data was lost, enter 0.

Tell us your tragic story of data loss. Explain exactly what happened. Tell us how you felt and what lesson you learned. It's also OK to report incidents when you NEARLY lost data. If you wish to make an anonymous entry, use the name and email address Anonymous.

Write as much as you like, but if you find you're writing a lot, edit it in a text editor (rather than this form field) so you can save it to disk while you work on it; it would be ironic if you lost your wailing wall story! Please don't feel embarrassed to share your story of data loss; almost everyone has lost some important data at some stage and felt a right Dodo. It's almost a rite of passage for computer users. Thank you for sharing your story.

Text will be wrapped, but blank lines will be preserved. No HTML please.

Story title:

e.g. Never attempt to do a backup after more than 10 Budweisers.

Which Tao Of Backup Head was most relevant?
Please think carefully before you select "Other" and if you do, please explain in your story. Thanks.

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