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Posted by Wayne Boatwright on October 21, 2009, 9:09 pm
On Wed 21 Oct 2009 08:34:46a, Red Green told us...
>
>> 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."
>>>
>>>
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>
> Geesh those were slow, noisey and unreliable. IIRC mine was an Iomega
> QIC-40/80.
>
Yes, they were, and I think I had the same model. Still, they were
somewhat better than nothing. I never had to restore the entire PC from a
tape, but there a fair number of times I had to restore selected files.
Most of those times were successful.
--
~~ 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 Jules on October 20, 2009, 10:26 am
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:52:24 -0700, Oren wrote:
> Do you back up data?
Mine's in two different countries, in case one of 'em gets nuked ;)
(OK, so that's not by intention, but it does give a certain amount of
resilience :-)
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Posted by DerbyDad03 on October 20, 2009, 11:01 am
On Oct 20, 10:26=A0am, Jules
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:52:24 -0700, Oren wrote:
> > Do you back up data?
> Mine's in two different countries, in case one of 'em gets nuked ;)
> (OK, so that's not by intention, but it does give a certain amount of
> resilience :-)
How close are these countries to each other?
I don't believe that radiation respects territorial boundaries.
I know of one company that built a disaster recovery data center in
"another country" only to learn later that both sites were on the same
fault line and that a major earthquake had to potential to knock out
both sites.
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Posted by Jules on October 20, 2009, 11:54 am
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:01:27 -0700, DerbyDad03 wrote:
> On Oct 20, 10:26Â am, Jules
>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:52:24 -0700, Oren wrote:
>> > Do you back up data?
>> Mine's in two different countries, in case one of 'em gets nuked ;)
>> (OK, so that's not by intention, but it does give a certain amount of
>> resilience :-)
>
> How close are these countries to each other?
Slightly over 4000 miles... tounge-in-cheek of course because it's not
like I can be in both places at once anyway. I should really keep data in
two countries where neither of them happen to be the one that I'm living
in ;)
> I don't believe that radiation respects territorial boundaries.
Someone should really fix that. Perhaps a big lead fence a few miles high.
:-)
> I know of one company that built a disaster recovery data center in
> "another country" only to learn later that both sites were on the same
> fault line and that a major earthquake had to potential to knock out
> both sites.
Oops!
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Posted by aemeijers on October 20, 2009, 6:45 pm
Jules wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:01:27 -0700, DerbyDad03 wrote:
>> On Oct 20, 10:26Â am, Jules
>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:52:24 -0700, Oren wrote:
>>>> Do you back up data?
>>> Mine's in two different countries, in case one of 'em gets nuked ;)
>>> (OK, so that's not by intention, but it does give a certain amount of
>>> resilience :-)
>> How close are these countries to each other?
>
> Slightly over 4000 miles... tounge-in-cheek of course because it's not
> like I can be in both places at once anyway. I should really keep data in
> two countries where neither of them happen to be the one that I'm living
> in ;)
>
>> I don't believe that radiation respects territorial boundaries.
>
> Someone should really fix that. Perhaps a big lead fence a few miles high.
> :-)
>
>> I know of one company that built a disaster recovery data center in
>> "another country" only to learn later that both sites were on the same
>> fault line and that a major earthquake had to potential to knock out
>> both sites.
>
> Oops!
>
>
You think that's bad? Your Federal Government built no less than 3
'emergency backup' computer centers in metro New Orleans. Not just data
caves, the whole damn server farm. I think the highest one was about 10
feet above sea level. What are ya gonna do? Give them a manual, and they
eat the covers....
--
aem sends...
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