To add the rest of my usual mantra: AND TEST YOUR BACKUPS.
Memories of the look on someone's face when I had to tell them that their laptop drive was truly dead (unless they wanted to pay a data recovery company a pile o' cash) and the USB stick they'd been saving copies of important documents too appeared to be silently corrupting everything written to it...
To add the rest of my usual mantra: AND TEST YOUR BACKUPS.
Memories of the look on someone's face when I had to tell them that their laptop drive was truly dead (unless they wanted to pay a data recovery company a pile o' cash) and the USB stick they'd been saving copies of important documents too appeared to be silently corrupting everything written to it...