So far this week I’ve worked with two potential new clients who lost data. For one of them, it was evidence in a court case, and it’s irretrievable. For the other one, it was a "bricked” personal laptop. They may be able to recover the data by using one of the big professional data recovery companies, but it’ll cost a couple thousand dollars.
Of course, neither of them had backups of any kind.
Storage is cheap. Do your backups.
@paxterrarum I just don't understand it. Ages ago, we told people to back it up. Whole professional practices and even the California unemployment system...broke down laptops and even large systems with two things done stupid and wrong:
No daily backup and not keeping an existing system functional and operational until the system conversion is 100%.