Tao Of Backup Wailing Wall

Welcome to the Tao Of Backup Wailing Wall where the unenlightened (or recently enlightened) purge their souls of past grief. To add your own entry, just fill out the wailing wall form.

Date	Name	DaysLost	Category	Title
14-Oct-1997	Ross Williams	0	Frequency	How I nearly lost the Tao Of Backup!
10-Dec-1997	Peter N Lewis	8	Coverage	"All your data" really means "*All* your data".
24-Mar-1998	Anonymous	730	Coverage	Always MAKE SURE you're getting every filesystem!
30-Mar-1998	Grant Bayley	25	Frequency	Never entrust your website to a single hard drive or a single backup
13-Apr-1998	Anonymous	1	Integrity	Don't forget to backup the hidden files....
13-Apr-1998	Anonymous	22	Testing	TV Erases backup tapes
24-Apr-1998	Duncan	1000	Other	Beware of false Prophets
08-May-1998	Andrew Rutherford	150	History	Don't use streaming compression.
26-Sep-1998	Anonymous	0	Other	Even if you have a perfectly good backup, you may *not* be able to restore it.
02-Dec-1998	Ross Williams	573	Coverage	Ensure that you have a backup copy of your web.
02-Feb-1999	Ross Williams	100	Separation	Thieves attempt to destroy all backups at Daewoo.
03-Apr-1999	Dave Thompson	180	Frequency	I Didn't Have to Say "I told you so."
26-May-1999	Stephan Carydakis	0	Frequency	D..chead Deactivates C Drive as DOS Partition
04-Oct-1999	Mike Mohr	22	Other	Something the Master Never Told Us
21-Oct-1999	John Elsbury	1000	Separation	Always keep a backup somewhere else
16-Apr-2000	Michael Felzien	0	Other	Hamlet wasn't all that crazy... Really he wasn't!!!
21-Sep-2000	Patrick Anonymous	0	Frequency	Recovery not cheap . . .
25-Sep-2000	Ross Williams	0	Other	Testing the wailing wall form. Please ignore.
16-Oct-2000	Per von Zweigbergk	14	Frequency	Handheld computers need backing up too...
15-Jan-2001	Anonymous	0	Testing	Fast Backups /dev/null
27-Jun-2001	Anonymous	10	Testing	Try recovering everything, not just one file.
02-Jul-2001	Anonymous	365	Coverage	backup your cellphone phonebook onto paper if you must.
30-Sep-2001	Anonymous	30	Testing	Never, ever, EVER trust Norton Ghost completely
09-Nov-2001	Anonymous	120	Coverage	Don't ever think you've got it right!
13-Dec-2001	David	7300	Frequency	A lifetime to create; so quick to destroy.
27-Dec-2001	Anonymous	60	Coverage	Backup is FOR EVERYBODY
20-Mar-2002	Jim Anonymous	20	Separation	Burglars took my laptop and all my backups too!
11-Sep-2003	ASimpson	1	Coverage	look before you drive or never leave home without backing up before hand
23-Oct-2003	Mark Lambert	0	Separation	The fireproof safe trap
30-Nov-2003	anonymous	365	Other	Don't use an 'unknown' form of backup storage
31-Mar-2004	Monty Harder	0	Testing	When is /dev/rStp0 not a tape drive?
21-Jun-2004	Anonymous	2	Coverage	Do NOT use a "Go-Back" program or System Restore as a BACKUP!
15-Jul-2004	Benson J Maxter	0	Frequency	The Backup Armageddon, or The Second Coming of Lost Dreams
19-Jul-2004	Anonymous	640	Testing	Of Best, and Worst, Laid Plans
27-Aug-2004	Marc Leveille	4	Integrity	Time to make a master...
07-Nov-2004	anonymouse	728	Coverage	Never ever turust your defrag software
06-Jan-2005	Nathaniel	30	Coverage	Make sure you know what you are backuping.
17-Jan-2005	Myself	6	Coverage	Non-destructive techniques definitely a good thing.
04-Feb-2005	Paul Wayper	2	Coverage	Maybe I jinxed it?
01-Sep-2005	Anonymous	10000	Separation	We lost EVERYTHING
21-Sep-2005	Johan	180	Other	Use tao approved software.
25-Sep-2005	Anonymous	0	Other	In an emergency you'l need the right equipment to read the backups.
21-Sep-2006	Anonymous	90	Coverage	Never Leave Your Laptop Anywhere!!!
16-Apr-2007	ketil albertsen	1	Testing	Demons are evil
11-Jul-2007	Oliver Hellwig	0	Other	An Automatic Offsite Backup Story
05-Aug-2007	vin	0	Coverage	Un-natural disasters
26-Jan-2008	Old School Tao	180	Coverage	Restrict access before you let someone go.
06-May-2008	Anonymous	180	Separation	SQL injection got us
06-Jul-2009	Simon Neville	146000	Testing	Organisational records gone 'cause the offsite tape was blank