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Most people who have been around computers for a long time have horror stories of disk crashes and data loss. And even if your story isn’t horrific, you probably have an “Oh, $#!*!” moment or two when things go wrong and you lose an hour’s or a day’s (or more) worth of work. The thing is, the minute your hard drive was created, it started a countdown toward its mean time before failure (MTBF—a rating that measures the average amount of time before a hard drive fails); of course, more frequently, we tend to occasionally make mistakes (either as a user or a developer), so we must make sure we have effective ways of backing up and syncing our data.
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© 2009 Scott Meyers and Mike Lee
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Meyers, S., Lee, M. (2009). Backup, Synchronization, and Recovery of Data. In: Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1947-7_7
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