> The other day I was backing up my band's multi-track recordings of our > new album. ( I throw one copy in my safe and the other copy to the singer > ). She asked my what the purpose of back-up was. I was at a loss to > explain. > > Me says: "What if we want to go back in 10 years to see what we had > done." > She says: "Why would we want to do that?" > Me says: "What if the band gets really popular some day and we want to > have a $800 an hour professional remix the album?" > She says: "Wouldn't we want to re-create it from scratch then?" > > Not exact quotes, but that was the gist of the conversation. How do I > explain the concept of a back-up? I was trying to think of a mundane > metaphor, but couldn't. Any ideas?
Well in this case it seems pretty simple: what if your house burns down? If it did you still have the album! The short-n-simple answer explaining back-ups is always "so I can't lose it". That's the only reason why you would ever back-up. It seems like you were drawn into a different argument; that of "why would you ever want to keep it" - a different thing altogether. I've got a boxes full of things I wish I could back-up, but that the wife wonders why we keep in the first place. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
