Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:58:40 +0000, Lisi wrote:

On Monday 29 November 2010 16:47:31 Camaleón wrote:
Oh, c'mon. There is no need to be a "computer scientist" to care about
your data. Not today. You can buy a USB external disk (or DVD media)
and put there your beloved files. Even Windows can automate this task
for you.

In my experience hoi polloi simply don't understand the value of or need
for backup. I frequently find people who have data that is very
important to them, even crucial to their business, who have no backup.

"Important data" and "no data backup" in the same phrase do not
compute :-)

(yep, I know what you wanted to mean here)

They think of the computer as some sort of incomprehensible magic, not a
machine whose behaviour can be predicted or analysed, and which can
fail.

I tend to instruct people who asks me about their computers (mostly my
family -mother, uncle-... and friends) on the convenience of making
periodical backups for their data (images, e-mails, docs, etc...) and how
they can do the job with easy steps (by simply copy/paste a folder into
USB keys, using a DVD or, depending on amount of the data to copy, using
an external disk).

I care of them and I give practical and exact instructions (by e-mail, by
phone...) but I cannot manage all of their computers neither want to
become the "handy-techie-do-it-all-support girl" here :-)

I'll give you an example. One old lady, whose computing I supported,
took 'photos of all her holidays, which she looked at often to cheer
herself up and remind her of a happy experience. These 'photos were
very valuable to her. I repeatedly advised her to have an off-computer
copy, instead of having only the one copy on one HDD. (She wiped the
'photos from her camera memory card as soon as she had uploaded them.)

One day she messed up her registry to the point where reinstallation was
essential. She assured me when asked that her precious 'photos were all
fine and she had off-computer copies of all of them. When, after the
event, it became obvious that a small percentage of the photos was
missing, she asked me to install Picasa "because that is where those
'photos are".

Re-ouch! The missing photos were stored online? At least she had a happy
ending... this time.

Don't underestimate the gulf of incomprehension that exists in the
non-geek world at large.

Yes, and the "gulf" can have the size of a "black hole" O:-)... but you
know how these human-things go after all: unless they lose something
*really* important for them, they won't care about backups, no matter
what you do or tell, they'll simply do... nothing.

Greetings,

--
Camaleón


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