back up horror stories

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 18 13:51:29 PST 2001


A friend of mine at Cambridge finished his diss on the philosophy og quantum physics; made copies of his completed draft, got them wrapped in brown paper, and left them on his bike when he stopped in a store on the way to the binder. They were gone when he came out, and no doubt trashed immediately thereafter when the thief discovered what they were. This was in pre-computer days. He had spend the next year reconstructing the thing from notes.

Btw, my wife's hand-made wedding dress was stolen two days before the wedding . . . .

--jks


>
>Well, I know a woman who left the only copy of her just-completed PhD
>thesis on her computer in the house she was living in and one night the
>house burned down. (She stood in the street in her nightie yelling about
>the last seven years while the place went up in flames.) So she asked
>Cornell if they'd let her get her degree anyway based on the work she'd
>done (her committee had seen it). They refused, but gave her a short
>extension. Not very funny.
>
>Joanna
>
>
>At 18:30 18-01-01, you wrote:
>>first, anyone remember julian's (from the UK; sociology of music diss)
>>email address. i recall that he migrated to a provider in the UK, begins
>>with a B, had some problems with a hackers early last summer... i ask
>>because julian had a funny story about someone who had his diss stored in
>>about 5 different ways.
>>
>>anyway, i'm looking for (i don't) backup (my files) horror stories. if
>>you have any funnies or not so funnies to share, let me know. i might
>>tell the one about bad subjects listers getting resubbed because bad list
>>admin didn't back up the subscriber list as they should. some of you
>>probably remember how Carenegie's e-server would go down for days. when
>>it went back up, a bunch of people, who'd managed to get unsubbed after
>>months of being unable to, would automagically find themselves getting the
>>dreaded mail from the bad subjects list. heh.
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>kell
>
>www.overlookhouse.com
>

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