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gatehouse · on July 22, 2014

The other proper answer is to have a good backup and recovery system.

goblin89 · on July 22, 2014

> The other proper answer is to have a good backup and recovery system.

And, of course, that should've been the solution to OP's incident with the Korean Airlines flight 007. Backups, surprisingly, are scarcely mentioned at all in this whole thread.