I have things that people have given me, which are irreplaceable and which I'd be sad to lose, but nothing so precious that its loss would make my life miserable forever.
Data... it's kind of depressing to think that I don't actually have much data that I care about. I've never written or coded anything of any significance. I wrote a PhD, which is backed up because it's published and there's a copy in my university's libraries, as well as having various electronic backups lying around all over the place. But to be honest, at this point I wouldn't care if it were wiped out, it's got me where I wanted to be and I don't need it any more.
The most irreplaceable is my two folders of hand-written correspondence from before I discovered email, the stuff which formed my deepest friendships. Actually, maybe it would be worth copying or scanning all that, because the paper is physically fragile even assuming no fires or similar accidents, and that's the stuff I'd be most upset to lose.
Data from experiments I'm currently working on is technically irreplaceable. I could do the experiments again, but it wouldn't be the same. I have to admit that's backed up fairly haphazardly; I need to do something more systematic about that before disaster strikes. But in general, if my computer died or were stolen, it would be a nuisance, but not a tragedy.
My correspondence history from 1997 to 2004 is currently in limbo, not lost, but not in a place or format where I can easily get at it. I need to do something about that before it drifts further out of my grasp.
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Date: 2007-01-26 08:13 am (UTC)Data... it's kind of depressing to think that I don't actually have much data that I care about. I've never written or coded anything of any significance. I wrote a PhD, which is backed up because it's published and there's a copy in my university's libraries, as well as having various electronic backups lying around all over the place. But to be honest, at this point I wouldn't care if it were wiped out, it's got me where I wanted to be and I don't need it any more.
The most irreplaceable is my two folders of hand-written correspondence from before I discovered email, the stuff which formed my deepest friendships. Actually, maybe it would be worth copying or scanning all that, because the paper is physically fragile even assuming no fires or similar accidents, and that's the stuff I'd be most upset to lose.
Data from experiments I'm currently working on is technically irreplaceable. I could do the experiments again, but it wouldn't be the same. I have to admit that's backed up fairly haphazardly; I need to do something more systematic about that before disaster strikes. But in general, if my computer died or were stolen, it would be a nuisance, but not a tragedy.
My correspondence history from 1997 to 2004 is currently in limbo, not lost, but not in a place or format where I can easily get at it. I need to do something about that before it drifts further out of my grasp.