Sunanda recently lost some photos that she'd clicked on her holiday, and I asked what I thought was the obvious: "where did you back them up"? A freezing glare followed. "Why", she asked me "should I have to back it up?". Putting my foot firmly in my mouth, I persisted "its dumb to not back up! Technology 101!!". "Pretty stupid technology, if you ask me" she said, marching out of the room. This exchange got me thinking. In all my life as a technology manager (not to mention high priest of family photographs), backup has been are core mantra, but also a colossal the pain in the neck. The process takes too long, is never as current as you want and is invariably missing for the very day that your most important data was being written. Storage did indeed seem more than a bit stupid if so much time and effort was required to protect it from losing data. Technology should be smart enough to do invisibly what is essentially a core
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