Gilbert M. Hale
New Freedom Data Resources
Pittsford, NY
585-359-8085
gil .at. gilhale .D.OT com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: profox-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profox-bounces .at. leafe .D.OT com]On
> Behalf Of Michael Madigan
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:36 PM
> To: ProFox Email List
> Subject: Re: Why backup?
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> An attorney in our town lost their office in a fire. All their
> billing records, wills, briefs, etc were lost. They went out of
> business after that.
Happens a lot. If I lost all my work I would be out of business also.
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> I bid a job one time where some idiot at the company accused me
> of padding the quote with a needless tape drive. He said, "we
> never got the one we had to work in the last company I worked
> for, I don't think its necessary". Needless to say, I didn't get
> the work. Tape drives have been notorious for being flakey. I
> use hard disk backup now, by either using pcanywhere across the
> internet and using an automated script, or by using a USB
> external hard disk and let them backup the server, and keep the
> backup in their car.
I have been doing Disk-to-Disk for several months, as oppsoed to my 2 HP
DLT40 units and one HP Travan 20. I LOVE it. After much searching I found
www.secondcopy.com. $30 per machine, works with Windows client and Server
class O/S, easy to set up and I configured my backups to do a full backup
one night a week, incremental to separate drive directories the remaining
days. If you need removable media use a Firewire or USB 2.0 external set of
drives as the backup target. To save on licensing I use Second Copy on the
Disk-To-Disk target Servers to pull the data from multiple client PCs
instead of having each client PC push the data to the Servers. Being
disk-to-disk, with incredible write speeds, I can get all the backups done
lickety-split with plenty of time to spare overnight. I then use
disk-to-disk to go to yet another target machine to backup the backup
drives.
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> I setup a satelite company and had them running like a top.
> Backup, dial-up support, off site backups, quickbooks, etc. When
> their home office found out, they asked me to bid on setting up
> the whole company. I lost the bid, not on price, but because
> someone heard of someone else, blah blah blah. Well these
> geniuses didn't put in a backup, and after putting in the entire
> warehouse inventory, they lost it all to a disk crash and had to
> start all over. F*ckem, they should have used me:)
Ditto re: "F*ckem, they should have used me:)"!
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> Since we haven't found Saddam Hussein yet, does that mean he
> never existed either?
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