Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)

Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by mabbo on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @09:51AM (#13417969)

> all for naught?

I bet you they were suddenly industry experts in source control and data backups.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by Klathmon on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @09:57AM (#13418018)

I made a mistake like this once, I feel most that are really dogmatic about backups have something like this.

A long time ago I had a hard drive fail that had a bitcoin wallet with about 10 bitcoins in it.

At the time it was worth a hundred USD or so. I tried to fix it myself, ended up failing and throwing the drive out.

Right after that bitcoin started its meteoric climb. Every now and then I check the prices, then I go check that my backups are running, that my restores work, that my offsite backup is setup correctly, that every single one of my devices is backed up.

It was a $9,000 life lesson (as of right now...)

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by rebuilder on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @10:06AM (#13418101)

Having lost quite some Bitcoins myself to different errors, IMO it was a hundred USD lesson. You could have replaced them but chose not to. The value therefore was whatever they would have netted you at the time. Worrying about what could have been will just drive you nuts.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by Klathmon on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @10:50AM (#13418488)

I know, I'm not actually as broken up about it as I make it sound sometimes. It was a mistake, and it could "technically" cost me 10 grand, so it's a nice number to remember when I think about the time I'm spending setting up and testing my backups. (And it's a fantastic story to tell others which can often get them to start using a backup system)

In the end, it may end up being net positive in my life when I save something huge later.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by h1d on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @03:29PM (#13420865)

Caring to take good backups and the knowledge/skill of doing so is well worth more than $9K in the long run. Losing months of work is a mental killer.

(What's worse is losing 100+ BTC to Gox. :p)

I have not lost anything really important but I cannot live without at least 3 geographically separated backups of generations of backups for something I don't want to lose.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by brokenmachine on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @12:08AM (#13424138)

> (What's worse is losing 100+ BTC to Gox. :p)

I lost 18 BTC to MtGox... Bought most of them when the exchange rate was about $500.

I knew there was danger in keeping it on the exchange. I wanted to show my girlfriend who bought one of those BTC how easy it was to transfer them to a local machine, to demonstrate the power of Bitcoin because I was passionate about it and thought it had a chance of changing our corrupt banking system.

She kept putting me off, she thought it was some big procedure and just wanted me to do it. I forgot about it after that for a couple of months... Then MtGox exploded.

:-(

If you're out there, MtGox thief, I worked for that BTC. Karma will get you in the end.

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