How The Backup Process Has Changed

How The Backup Process Has Changed

Personally, I'm not very forgiving to users in cases like this. If they don't notice the problem before the next backup (tomorrow), it's gone.

Odd choice of words. I'd say, "I don't provide backup service to users for cases like this."

And I think that's a huge omission. For my personal data, I have lost far more due to corruption of the primary copy than by the primary copy becoming unreadable. Accidental deletion, naive modification of source code, program run amok, dishonest employee, etc. And of those, the majority was not detectable within 24 hours.

So my backup systems have always concentrated on being able to get old copies of files back, at the expense of being able to recover from a broken disk drive easily.

In my case, my "users" are myself and my wife (our company is just us). 
And I'm *not* very forgiving of us. All my data loss has been my own 
stupid goofs. I know right away, and go back to the backup. I'm more 
concerned with having multiple copies of the same backup, in case of disk 
failure or lightning strike.

But if I had a larger company or an employee who had the expertise to hack 
things, I'd take a view more like yours.