harangzsolt33, congratulations on a thoughtful and meticulously planned meditation!

Further to the excellent replies you've already received, I thought I'd add a couple of anecdotes.

In the first small company I worked for, the husband and wife business owners took tape backups of our software home with them from the office every Friday night ... so they'd be able to resurrect their business in the event of an office fire or something. I doubt they ever did any serious disaster recovery testing though.

In larger companies I've worked for, auditors enforced regular off-site backups (stored in a bank vault IIRC), along with a formal Disaster recovery plan. Not sure if these plans were designed for the business to survive a nuclear strike on the city that wiped out both the office and the bank vaults.

The Arctic World Archive (AWA) is a facility for data preservation, located in the Svalbard archipelago on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, not far from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It contains data of historical and cultural interest from several countries, as well as all of American multinational company GitHub's open source code, in a deeply buried steel vault, with the data storage medium expected to last for 500 to 1,000 years.

-- from Arctic World Archive

If I understand this correctly, code on github would even survive a global nuclear war and the destruction of civilization?

Disaster Recovery References

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In reply to Re: Have you ever lost your work? (disaster recovery) by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Have you ever lost your work? by harangzsolt33

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