Ouch!
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Back when I bought my first PC circa 1990, my brother who had just completed an IT degree gave me this advice:
“There are two types of computer users. Those that back up their essential data… And those that wish they did”.
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This is the gov version of:
„Hey, I dropped my phone and it does not start any more. Now all my Pictures of the last 3 years are gone. You‘re an IT expert, is there something you can do?“
„Well, I can deliver bad news with a smile… 
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…Except a guy jumped off a building for this failure. 
Double check your Restore capabilities! It‘s Backup AND Restore. With backup meaning you have offsite copies of each file AND its history. So you can go back to a state before it was fumbled with.
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Yeah, I second the “restore test” recommendation: an untested backup is a really bad day just waiting to happen. Yeah, guess how I know…
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