A Pixar Toy Story 2 Tale Shows The Importance Of Data Backup [Video]

A cautionary tale from Pixar in the form of a video reveals how it had lost <em>Toy Story 2 </em>altogether. The video was available as an extra on the Blu-ray disc for quite some time, but resurfaced on the internet last week, with a horrible story that revolves around the dangers of digital movie-making, while also stressing over the importance of up-to-date backups.

Thankfully, Galyn Susman, movie's Supervising Technical Director, did have backups of the files at home, and the movie could be completed. Dramatic as the story may seem, I'm pretty sure the drama would have sucked the life out of the creators when they discovered they had unknowingly deleted 90% of the files required in the project.

Watch for yourself  the video below, as the creators share their experience:

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