YES. Save early, Save often, should be the first mantra they teach in any basic computing course. I've lost stuff because I've forgotten to save it and the power goes out, word's autosave copy shits itself, ad nauseum.
We run into similar situations at work all. The. Time.
Fortunately, as we have people saving to a shared network store, we have both the 'shadow copy' functionality built into Active Directory, the SAN's own built shapshot copy functionality, AND daily backups (both near term storage and offsite tape).
About the only time we've had to pull tapes is when some clueless doofus tells us 'I'm missing these emails, the last time I recall seeing then was x months ago' which makes the mail admin (i.e. ME) a sad panda.
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We run into similar situations at work all. The. Time.
Fortunately, as we have people saving to a shared network store, we have both the 'shadow copy' functionality built into Active Directory, the SAN's own built shapshot copy functionality, AND daily backups (both near term storage and offsite tape).
About the only time we've had to pull tapes is when some clueless doofus tells us 'I'm missing these emails, the last time I recall seeing then was x months ago' which makes the mail admin (i.e. ME) a sad panda.