06-27-2007, 05:33 PM
Davester,
In a perfect world, everyone will have backups and backups of their backups. And, they'll backup regularly. Unfortunately, that's not the case. And, assuming someone _does_ backup regularly, sometimes a failure will take place at a time when even having the latest backup won't cut it. Or, the corruption was gradual and is in the backups. So, reverting to the backup restores the data along with the corruption that eventually caused the failure. So, to say using DriveSavers or an equivalent is money stupidly spent is in my opinion, a statement that isn't well thought out at all.
Robert
In a perfect world, everyone will have backups and backups of their backups. And, they'll backup regularly. Unfortunately, that's not the case. And, assuming someone _does_ backup regularly, sometimes a failure will take place at a time when even having the latest backup won't cut it. Or, the corruption was gradual and is in the backups. So, reverting to the backup restores the data along with the corruption that eventually caused the failure. So, to say using DriveSavers or an equivalent is money stupidly spent is in my opinion, a statement that isn't well thought out at all.
Robert