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My scheme is an external USB HD on my desk at home. I take my
laptop home with me at night and sometime during the night the drive
synchs its data backup directories with every system on my home
network. The laptop HD contains a daily synched copy of our
company's entire document database and I live 40 miles from my
office, so that's reasonably "offsite archiving" so long as the San
Andreas fault doesn't level the entire SF Bay area one day.
Now all I need to do is figure out a plan to offsite the home systems.
There's too much stuff on them I wouldn't want my employer to be
able to access to keep a copy of the backups at the office...
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:20 AM
Subject: RE: Tech Comms for disaster relief
I used to do a full daily backup to a CD-RW and then store the disc in
my desk, in case something bad happened to my PC (hard drive failures,
etc.). My supervisor suggested that I start taking my backup home with
me, in case something bad happened to the building. Since then, I have a
small case with 5-6 discs in it (Daily plus Archives), and that case
never spends the night in the same place as my PC: If I take the PC home
with me, the discs stay at the office, and vice versa.
If something bad happened to the entire city, as tragically happened to
New Orleans this week, I suppose that my data might not survive me.
Anyway, this is a personal initiative, not company policy.
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