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More worrying is that you may think a computation error loses months of work work. What is the appropriate reaction to this?

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More worrying is that you may think a computation error loses months of work work. What is the appropriate reaction to this?

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Work Unit smaller has been considered and rejected as not practical. A better reaction would be to decide to make a backup from time to time so if you do suffer an error, you can recover without losing too much work. If you want to do this, see How-To Backup BOINC.