I've noticed recently that more and more of my clients and friends are having drive failures. Now I don't know if it's the recent heat waves, global warming, or the fact that most of the drives that are in play right now were purchased quite some time ago and have just run their spindles out, but at least once a week for the past two months I've heard about a full on drive failure or seen a drive showing the signs of impending doom. Since we're at the halfway mark for the year I'm suggesting that we all take a look at our backup solution and make sure that the whole end to end backup process is working.

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