I agree, that there is no excuse for NOT having a backup and you're playing with fire if you trust to hardware! It will fail eventually. -AniMajik

This should be in my signature. :)

I played with fire last year and lost everything in November.  It has taken me months to get back on track and I am still recovering my own work.  The relatively short amount of time I could have spend on backing it up (and I am still a fan of doing it manually and logically) would have saved me MUCH pain.

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