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The legal battle over arbitrary exclusion is a difficult fight by innocent victims.
Not having backups is a confession by morons with nobody to blame but themselves.
These two things can coincide.
This is not the story of a person with no backups. It's the story of a person with partial backups.
Be careful before you blame the victim, and if you're going to do so anyway, at least be accurate about it.
Eh, the author definitely has more responsibility than he makes out. He's fully aware that it wasn't suitable as a backup for all of his stuff (like the book he was writing and all the tutorials), but acts like that shouldn't matter because he wanted to use it that way to make his desktop workflow better.