Re: Lobbying paper follow-up

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

>> While this attracted some interest during my presentation, I'm not so
>> sure if that's rather an academic question. Do you know of someone
>> having actually recovered from a text file suffering from a disk
>> crash - and not having spent more work than starting again from
>> scratch?

Far too often.  By the way, spotty recovery is the reason that tape
backups are usually not done compressed (at least not in my time) and/or
even when they are, a block compression rather than a large file
compression is being used.

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David Kastrup