Can't live without it (2)

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• Four people apparently have exactly one irreplaceable thing. I'm curious what it is l-)
• Quite a few people don't have backups despite having lost data because of it. Perhaps they now have nothing left that's irreplaceable, but apart from that, what are you people thinking?
• Lots of people have lost data because their backups failed; which points out a question I missed, whether people test their backups - untested backups having a nasty little habit of turning out not to work, or not containing the files you thought they did.
• Another arguably missing question was about whether you'd actually be able to replace replaceable things - I couldn't afford to replace my house on my own if it burned down, but it's insured against that. (You can't conveniently test this kind of backup, but you don't hear so many stories of people's home insurance turning out not to work as you do data backups.)

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[aldabra]

I'm thinking: there're lots of more urgent things I should be doing instead and that'll wait until tomorrow, but now I'm tired and I'll do some sudoku before I get on to the urgent stuff.

I think I've lost all electronic version of my th#sis, but I don't care enough to do an extensive search and anyway it sucked and if I was ever going to do anything with it I ought to start again anyway.