The Open Directory Project has operated under various names, but its latest incarnation managed at AOL has earned a new name: FUBAR.
Backups, On-line Storage, and Stupidity
We’re living in interesting times. With today’s release of Amazon.com’s S3 on-line storage service, we’re one step closer to the cheap on-line storage that so many don’t believe will be useful.
E-Backups Picks Up 20 New VARs
E-Backups a wholesale provider of branded HIPAA compliant, remote back-up software, services and managed storage, was selected by twenty VAR’s to be the remote back solution of choice to present as a value added service to their clients. Each has had the solution customized and branded to their specifications.
Data Backups – One Key to Business Survival
Your customer data is a precious resource that can literally be worth its weight in gold! If used properly, it can be repeatedly mined for additional sales and referrals. Do you use this gold mine to increase the profitability of your business?
How Secure Are Online Data Backups?
Processing DATA is what all businesses do. Protecting data is what SMART businesses do. Smart businesses understand that if you lose your data you have lost your business.
Neglect and Misunderstanding of Backups
I had a call this week from a client who needed a file restored from backup. I had set them up with DVD-RAM and a Supertar a year ago, and had labeled five cartridges with Mon, Tues, etc. I know that (or thought I knew) they followed this rotation for a while, because I had used the previous day’s backup to restore files for them earlier this year.
Encrypting Backups
Problem
You want to create an encrypted backup.
Why not differential backups?
I get this question frequently. It’s usually triggered either because the tape device can’t hold an entire backup set or because the time required for backup interferes with productive work. Most of the time this can be easily remedied by a larger or faster storage device, but someone is bound to bring up the idea of differential backups.
The idea is that you create a full backup that has everything, and from then on, you only backup the files that have changed. Presumably that’s a smaller set of files and therefore this solves the space or time problems. Usually the full backup is refreshed on some schedule and the process starts again. There are variants on the theme; for example the differential may include all files that have changed since the last full backup rather than just those that have changed since the last differential. That sort of scheme eventually ends up with the differential containing any and all files that ever change, no matter how infrequently; the full backup is the source of everything else.
Do You Make REGULAR Backups? If You Don’t… It Could Cost You
One of the very basic computer ‘rules’ is to always make backup copies of your important files.
That is not only good advice, it’s extremely essential. You’ve probably heard the saying that it’s not IF your hard drive will crash, but WHEN!
But crashing is not the only way to lose files. What about accidentally deleting files, and then emptying the Recycle Bin?