Quoting Jamie Zawinski, PSA: backups, 2007

When (WHEN) your backup drive goes bad, which you will notice because your last backup failed, replace it immediately. This is your number one priority. Don’t wait until the weekend when you have time, do it now, before you so much as touch your computer again. Do it before goddamned breakfast. The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push it.

— Jamie Zawinski, PSA: backups, 2007 (via)

8:40pm on December 12, 2024 from Vancouver, Canada.


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