Not too long ago, I, Mr. Check-me-out-I’m-so-technical-and-cool, had a catastrophic data loss.  As implied by the use of the word ‘catastrophic’, I lost some stuff that… I did not want to lose.  At all. Lost, lost.  Too bad.  Sucks to be me.  How could this happen to a guy who does this for a living?  I’ll tell you how: procrastination.

I knew that off-site storage was necessary.  I have space on remote servers in secure locations… one of these days, I’m going to figure out a good way to, uh… hey, I gotta go pick up the pizza!

But, it’s worse than that.  I actually have a mirrored-disk, network-attached storage (NAS) box specifically for backups.  I have external drives specifically for making local backups, too.  So, short of my office burning down, I should be covered, no?  Uh… no. (continue reading…)