Something I've not seen discussed on this thread (yet) to consider: Most
data loss is the result of intentional user initiated actions.  While the
data loss is not necessarily intentional, I know so many people who were
just "cleaning up their C: drive" and ended up wiping out entire
subdirectories (including the O/S many times) and were left with nothing.
Even a six figure EMC disk array doesn't protect against that ... there is
simply no substitute for permanent (or at least semi-permanent) backups
which are separate from the live data.  Even having a second hard drive
that you synchronize with nightly leaves this area exposed ... ex: user
deletes file, synchronization process runs nightly for 3-4 days (deleting
file from synchronized media), finally user realizes they deleted file and
want it back.  Seen it too many times.

-- Mitch

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