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Originally Posted by PhantomFrog
There are only two kinds of computer users---those who have lost data and those who will lose data.
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Ali days that all the time.
I guess you could say there are three kinds of computer users,
those who have lost data, those who will data, and those will
really solid backup procedures. (Though even with really
solid procedures you could well use a few hours.)
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Originally Posted by PhantomFrog
Print what Raymor posted (#15) about backups and put it behind a refrigerator magnet.
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need to run my rotational backups and take the backup disk to my safe deposit box before the bank closes.
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Thanks for that - I'm glad you found it to be solid advice.
We too use a safe deposit box as one part of an overall back up system.
It's good for protecting data in the office in case of fire, burglary, etc.
You're probably not going to go to the safe deposit every day, so we
also use separate daily backups, and restoring from removable media
is a lot slower than simply booting the hot clone, so the disk in the
safe deposit box isn't a complete solution at all, but it's a good plan C
or plan D to avoid losing everything completely in the case where the
primary back up fails for some reason - which seems to happen more
often than one would expect, simply because dumping hundreds of
gigabytes of data is very hard on any media - tape, HD, or whatever.