Comments on: BACK IT UP!!!

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:23:43 +0000

Thanks for the comment David, first one from a CEO

By: David Friend

David Friend — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:12:30 +0000

Pete: I’m Carbonite’s CEO. Thanks for the posting regarding Carbonite. There was an interesting story in last Sunday’s New York Times that you have to read: I demonstrates why it’s a good idea to get your backup out of your house.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/business/07suits.html

SO MUCH FOR PLAN B The Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola followed some advice that many people ignore: back up your computer files.

But it didn’t seem to help Mr. Coppola last week, when thieves who broke into his home stole his computer and the backup, which stored 15 years’ worth of writing and photos.

The backup device, which was lying on the floor of his office, was scooped up by the burglars who broke into his home, he told police. The armed intruders tied up employees and took valuables, he said. Mr. Coppola is best known for his three “Godfather” films.

Regards,
David Friend, CEO
Carbonite, Inc.
Carbonite Online Backup

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:44:31 +0000

I think you have slightly more than a limited knowledge of backups you old trickster!

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:38:37 +0000

I have a limited knowledge of backups…. I dont trust tape. I reckon block level backups to disk is best, less disk usage and way more reliable than tape

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:54:09 +0000

Disk mirroring is great if you have your OS and data all on one disk.
I’ve never bothered with it because I’ve always had OS and apps on one disk and data on another, or now a network drive.

I backup all my machines with Acronis TrueImage in the event of a hardware failure.

By: AH

AH — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:14:54 +0000

If you have space in your PC how about disk mirroring?

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:37:59 +0000

Good man! Wow now that is very lucky about the laptop, but not so lucky about your house, naturally, that sucks!

Onwards and upwards defender of the backup realm!

By: DXEndar

DXEndar — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:11:34 +0000

Here at work we back up all the important info to tape, but I also do a shadow copy to my USB 400 Gig portable hard disk.

The office ladies thought I was crazy untill our building was struck by lightning (for the second time in a year) and the brand new server (behind surge supressors for power and eithernet) was fried.

Thus, the tape that was in it was fried as well . . . as well as the only working tape drive on campus.

I simply plugged in the ABS drive to another server, installed the server software, dumped the data and imported it, and changed the static IP address of the server to that of the old servers.

25 minutes max and things were back online.

And on the nite of Jan 1 three years ago (wow, that long) my house did burn down and I didnt have a good back up . . .

but I found the laptop (wet and crushed as it was), pulled the drive, and was able to dump the data to a desktop.

I back up my data twice a week, every week.