Comments on: Insurance is always too expensive – until it’s needed. https://berkonomics.com/?p=3358&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=insurance-is-always-too-expensive-until-its-needed Dave Berkus' business insights Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:54:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bill Fisher https://berkonomics.com/?p=3358&cpage=1#comment-115524 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:54:57 +0000 https://berkonomics.com/?p=3358#comment-115524 That happened to us back at Mattel — the main Vax drive went down, and all of the DECtape archives were bad. Not pretty. Not sure how much was lost there. We still have most of the work that was done in those days, including paper source code listings. Long, separate story….

And, many years later, our building was hit by lightning and our main RAID array lost three drives. All gone. Fortunately, nothing mission-critical was lost in the latter case. We keep regular archives of our entire source code repository off-site. I’ll triple-check with my admin to make sure they’re readable, but I believe we’ve done that recently. Never hurts to check again, though.

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