PSA: Back Up Your Shit

Re:PSA: Back Up Your Shit by codva on Monday January 13, 2014 @07:39PM (#7054624)

I delete all email after 90 days, unless I explicitly moved it to an archive folder.

I've never event thought about saving IMs, texts, Twitter, etc. Civilization has survived a very long time without a written record of every conversation ever. It will continue to do so.

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Re:PSA: Back Up Your Shit by BlackDeath3 on Monday January 13, 2014 @07:41PM (#7054632)

Civilization survived a long time without penicillin.

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Re:PSA: Back Up Your Shit by tekacs on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @05:39AM (#7056317)

I know that this isn't Reddit, but I can't resist: nick relevant!

(sorry, had to get that out of my system - am aware (AFAIK) that the black death was never treated with penicillin, given the dates involved)

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Re:PSA: Back Up Your Shit by BlackDeath3 on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @04:06PM (#7066162)

Better than the racist/overtly-sarcastically ominous comments I usually get concerning my name.

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Re:PSA: Back Up Your Shit by prawn on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @06:22AM (#7056429)

There would be countless historians now who wish they had access to more past writing than they do! And that includes the minutiae that we think completely uninteresting today.

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Re:PSA: Back Up Your Shit by stuff4ben on Monday January 13, 2014 @07:50PM (#7054650)

that's a good policy I'm going to start following at work. I have every email I've sent or received for the past 4 years I've worked at this particular company. Prior to that I saved my emails from other jobs in the same way. But I rarely go back into those archives for anything.

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