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Circuit Chuckles · Daily comic

Backup Plan

Published Thursday, 6 August 2026 · By Security.io

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic set in a records room, Rusty carries a box of disks, opens a packed filing drawer of backup copies, points proudly after Glitch spills something into it, and claims the data survived its first disaster.
Rusty stores multiple backup copies in a filing drawer and mistakes surviving a spill for disaster recovery.

Transcript

Accessible reading order
  1. Panel 1 — Rusty: I made a backup of our important data.
  2. Panel 1 — Glitch: Where is it?
  3. Panel 2 — Rusty: Right here in this drawer.
  4. Panel 3 — Rusty: See? Backup.
  5. Panel 4 — Rusty: It survived the first disaster.
  6. Panel 4 — Glitch: That is not disaster recovery.