Re: Saving data to hard drive vs posting it to network

Subject: Re: Saving data to hard drive vs posting it to network
From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 09:48:33 -0700

I work on local HD and auto-save save backups to network locations. I
also back up to an external HD, either directly or through USB stubs.
At any given time I have at least three backups cycling so that a loss
of any one will cost me no more than a day's work.

Gene Kim-Eng

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
> For those of you who store your work on a network rather than on your local machine, do you actually work on the network, or do you just move your stuff up there later?
>
> My work desktop was upgraded last week from Windows XP to Windows 7. So far, so good. My information was copied to a network share. I'm trying to work from the network rather than from my hard drive. My logic is that the network is more stable than my hard drive.
>
> The applications, however, want to default to saving my data to the hard drive. Overriding these defaults is taking some time. Also, it's just easier to save my latest work to my hard drive. Then I have to play catch-up later, and save my stuff on the network.
>
> How do you all handle this?
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