It makes no sense to me that this would include a single backup system. In the clip they admit that it was potentially 20 to 30 man-years of work that may have been lost. How in the world do they not have more “official” backups of something as major as Toy Story 2.Now, mostly, this is just an amusing little anecdote, but two things struck me: After a careful trip from the Pixar offices to her home and back, they discovered that, indeed, most of the film was saved: Then, the technical director of the film noted that, because she wanted to see her family and kids, she had been making copies of the entire film and transferring it to her home computer. And that’s when they realized that their backups hadn’t been working for a month. Here’s a random story, found via Kottke, highlighting how Pixar came very close to losing a very large portion of Toy Story 2, because someone did an rm * (non geek: “remove all” command). Fri, May 18th 2012 05:01am - Mike Masnick
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