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Posted by norminn@earthlink.net on October 20, 2009, 11:22 am
HeyBub wrote:
> tmclone wrote:
>>> Do you back up data?
>>> "IRREPLACEABLE DOCUMENTS"?
>>> http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/sys/1428657397.html
>>> "To the person or anyone that knows the person that burglarized an
>>> attorney's office downtown Friday October 16: If it is money you
>>> need, I would be more than happy to pay to get my equipment back, or
>>> a reward to know where it is. There are IRREPLACEABLE DOCUMENTS on
>>> the hard drives-you can respond or anonymize through here, or contact
>>> crimestoppers and leave information as to where the items can be
>>> found without leaving your name."
>> How stupid do you have to be to TELL THE THIEVES that they have stolen
>> IRREPLACEABLE documents? Why not just write them a blank check? I back
>> up each of two computers to the other one (in different buildings set
>> up for different tasks) each week, and once a month I burn/update a CD
>> with all the current/new "irreplaceable" stuff which is stored in a
>> third location. Not exactly rocket science.
>
> Another trick: Google Mail allows god-knows how much storage per account
> (more than 7 Gigabytes). You can ZIP up your precious data and send the
> results to yourself as a gmail attachment.
>
> It's offsite and available from anywhere.
>
> If seven gigs isn't enough, get multiple gmail accounts.
>
>
I have ten years of genealogy research sitting on an external hard
drive. I've had visions of the hard drive showing up in an antique shop
fifty years from now and someone saying, "Oh, I remember those things.
Wonder if it works?" Or the CD tucked away in the old family photo
album, long since replaced by several generations of more modern gadgets :o)
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Posted by Jules on October 20, 2009, 12:06 pm
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:22:52 -0400, norminn@earthlink.net wrote:
> I have ten years of genealogy research sitting on an external hard
> drive. I've had visions of the hard drive showing up in an antique shop
> fifty years from now and someone saying, "Oh, I remember those things.
> Wonder if it works?"
It's possible. There are certainly drives from the 1970s still
operational, so that's pushing 40 years. Whether the modern stuff will
prove quite as robust is another matter...
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Posted by Red Green on October 21, 2009, 11:40 am
> tmclone wrote:
>>> Do you back up data?
>>> "IRREPLACEABLE DOCUMENTS"?
>>> http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/sys/1428657397.html
>>> "To the person or anyone that knows the person that burglarized an
>>> attorney's office downtown Friday October 16: If it is money you
>>> need, I would be more than happy to pay to get my equipment back, or
>>> a reward to know where it is. There are IRREPLACEABLE DOCUMENTS on
>>> the hard drives-you can respond or anonymize through here, or
>>> contact crimestoppers and leave information as to where the items
>>> can be found without leaving your name."
>> How stupid do you have to be to TELL THE THIEVES that they have
>> stolen IRREPLACEABLE documents? Why not just write them a blank
>> check? I back up each of two computers to the other one (in different
>> buildings set up for different tasks) each week, and once a month I
>> burn/update a CD with all the current/new "irreplaceable" stuff which
>> is stored in a third location. Not exactly rocket science.
>
> Another trick: Google Mail allows god-knows how much storage per
> account (more than 7 Gigabytes). You can ZIP up your precious data and
> send the results to yourself as a gmail attachment.
>
> It's offsite and available from anywhere.
>
> If seven gigs isn't enough, get multiple gmail accounts.
>
>
Yea I've done that with Yahoo mail. But I just picked up a 16GB thumb
drive on sale at Staples for 29 bucks. Works fine for me since I really
have no video or music. Toss in the glovebox. Good enuf.
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Posted by Wayne Boatwright on October 20, 2009, 2:10 am
On Mon 19 Oct 2009 09:52:24p, Oren told us...
> Do you back up data?
>
> "IRREPLACEABLE DOCUMENTS"?
Yes, I do. I back up my entire hard drive weekly, with daily incremental
backups, on an external Buffalo terabyte hard drive installed in another
location from where my PC is locaged. For my purposes, it's safe enough
for me.
I frequently work from home, but I'm connected to my company's servers
through a VPN connection. Most work-related data is stored on the network
drives in our secured server room, and all servers are backed up each
night.
From the very first PC I owned, I started with an internal tape backup
drive and made weekly backups.
Better safe than sorry...
> http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/sys/1428657397.html
>
> "To the person or anyone that knows the person that burglarized an
> attorney's office downtown Friday October 16: If it is money you need,
> I would be more than happy to pay to get my equipment back, or a
> reward to know where it is. There are IRREPLACEABLE DOCUMENTS on the
> hard drives-you can respond or anonymize through here, or contact
> crimestoppers and leave information as to where the items can be found
> without leaving your name."
>
>
--
~~ If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it. ~~
~~ A mind is a terrible thing to lose. ~~
**********************************************************
Wayne Boatwright
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Posted by Red Green on October 21, 2009, 11:34 am
> On Mon 19 Oct 2009 09:52:24p, Oren told us...
>
>> Do you back up data?
>>
>> "IRREPLACEABLE DOCUMENTS"?
>
> Yes, I do. I back up my entire hard drive weekly, with daily
> incremental backups, on an external Buffalo terabyte hard drive
> installed in another location from where my PC is locaged. For my
> purposes, it's safe enough for me.
>
> I frequently work from home, but I'm connected to my company's servers
> through a VPN connection. Most work-related data is stored on the
> network drives in our secured server room, and all servers are backed
> up each night.
>
> From the very first PC I owned, I started with an internal tape backup
> drive and made weekly backups.
>
> Better safe than sorry...
>
>> http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/sys/1428657397.html
>>
>> "To the person or anyone that knows the person that burglarized an
>> attorney's office downtown Friday October 16: If it is money you
>> need, I would be more than happy to pay to get my equipment back, or
>> a reward to know where it is. There are IRREPLACEABLE DOCUMENTS on
>> the hard drives-you can respond or anonymize through here, or contact
>> crimestoppers and leave information as to where the items can be
>> found without leaving your name."
>>
>>
>
>
>
Geesh those were slow, noisey and unreliable. IIRC mine was an Iomega
QIC-40/80.
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