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Summer 1997
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An end-use had not been backing up their system regularly until a crash shocked them into it. They were given a box of floppies and instructed how to perform a filesave. It ran to 10 disks, but the overhead of feeding them into the machine each night was deemed to be worth it. All was quiet for a few weeks, until the machine crashed again. A techie went on site to try to restore from backup, but the machine would have none of it. Much head-scratching later, he found out that as the weeks passed and the volume of data grew, the backup had begun to prompt for another disk after consuming the first 10. The customer, having only one box of floppies, had just put the first one back in again.
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