A couple of years ago I learnt the hard way about the value of digital data.
Unknown to my wife and I we had been targeted by a professional team of theives.
Only minutes after we had left home one morning both our dead bolted doors and security screens had been smashed out of their frames. A truck was reversed into our driveway and virtually everything of any value loaded into it – and I mean everything! Computers, printers, TV’s stereo equipment, video camera, still camera, jewelery, clothes, coffee machine, DVD & CD collections etc.
Upon arriving home it took a while to consider all that we had lost…… my entire digital family history was gone. Everything was on our PC’s and the backup drive. From photos of family & friends, home video of my only son from baby till 6yrs old, scans of old irreplacable analogue photos from grandparents….all gone! Add to that all our business & tax records, email history etc and I realised that the physical losses were the least of my [...]
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