{"id":219,"date":"2006-11-27T21:18:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T10:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/11\/27\/biggest-remaining-risk-of-data-loss\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T21:18:03","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T10:18:03","slug":"biggest-remaining-risk-of-data-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/11\/27\/biggest-remaining-risk-of-data-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest remaining risk of data loss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Failures happen.<\/p>\n<p>Computer have been getting better at handling failures and making it easier to recover. The industry has tackled all of the big issues. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If my hard-drive fails, my RAID system will ensure my data is not lost.<\/li>\n<li>If my machine burns to the ground, my off-site backups restrict the amount of data I can lose.<\/li>\n<li>If the power fails or the operating system crashes, most of my applications will have auto-saved to temporary files, so not much data is lost.<\/li>\n<li>If I type the wrong key-sequence, most of my applications support multi-level Undo, so no data is lost.<\/li>\n<li>If I forget a password, my Password Safe database will remind me.<\/li>\n<li>If I quit from an application without saving, most of my applications will prompt me to save my file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That brings me to what I suspect is my biggest remaining risk for data loss&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>When I am prompted whether I want to save a file before quitting, I might have a braino, and type &#8216;N&#8217; when I mean &#8216;Y&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t catch me often, but when it does&#8230; Ugh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which Julian explores his biggest source of data loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insufficiently-advanced-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}