Posted by Dylan Parry on 10/16/76 11:25

Using a pointed stick and pebbles, rf scraped:

> [1] The first time I lost a disk (many years ago) it caused me about a week
> downtime. I work for myself so I cannot cost this but I guess several
> thousands of dollars.

We had a machine die on us in the office last week. Caused a major
headache as the latest backups hadn't been scheduled until the *day
after* the machine died. Needless to say, I have implemented a more
/paranoid/ approach to backups now!

I went and got a a new 250GB USB hard disk, which is now hooked up to
the file server. I then fitted an extra hard disk to each machine in the
office, with the understanding that *all* documents are saved on those
disks and those disks alone - no saving to the C drive etc. Each machine
in the office then performs an incremental backup of those disks each
night, which is then copied across the network to the server *and* to
the USB hard disk attached to it. As a bit of extra paranoia, I will be
making DVD copies of the most important stuff each week :)

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Dylan Parry
http://electricfreedom.org -- Where the Music Progressively Rocks!

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