I get emails from friends about once a month asking what this means, quickly followed by a sinking feeling that I need to tell you this: that you almost definitely don’t have a backup of anything, and you’re going to ask me about data recovery, and I’m going to need to tell you that it doesn’t usually work, and you’ve probably lost the photos from your great European vacation or your baby’s first steps or the last four years of your life.
I have almost the same experience as Marco, and I edited his words slightly to reflect mine: I often find it my job to tell people that their not having a backup is most of why I can’t recover their files for them. I pretty much never get out of these situations with very high stature.
(The edit was to change “tell you this, and you almost definitely don’t have…” to “tell you this: that you almost definitely don’t have…”.)
