A tale of backups

I have data. Admittedly most of that data does not have a lot of value, such as a list of motorway mile markers in the Netherlands and their coordinates from 2021. Still, I have no reason to throw it away, thus I just keep it on my disk just in case I ever need it. I have been doing this since the very start, and I still have some of my earliest files. If I lose those files nothing bad would…