Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> That's not a very good indication; reinstalling an OS is easy.  Suppose 
> the system were being used to do cancer research; that could be years of 
> work lost.  Of course if it were, they'd *better* be running backups, too.

  It would be very foolish to do something important and not make regular
backups. A simple hard drive failure can destroy all of your work at any
moment. Or a power surge (it's not even rare that lightning has fried a
computer so completely that all data has been irreversibly lost). Especially
in the latter case (and tons of others, such as a fire) you can't even rely
on RAID for safekeeping.

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                                                          - Warp

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