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Subject:Re[2]: Store Files on a Server? From:Don Timmerman <timmerman_at_ipd-tcs -at- IPDLINK -dot- IPD -dot- ANL -dot- GOV> Date:Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:27:47 -0600
One of our techwr-lers states,
"I have never worked for a company where individual users do backups of their
desktop machines (perhaps a bad practice), but they *always* back up their
network servers, and instruct people to keep company data on the servers
precisely for that purpose."
I don't know if I'm tired or just spaced out at the moment, but I'm not sure why
backing up my desktop machine is "perhaps a bad practice."
At work, all my applications and file reside on my desktop machine (PC with
Windows 95). At least once a day, I click on the Backup icon (a DOS batch file)
and all file that have been changed since the last time I did a backup (refer to
DOS help, xcopy on your machine) get copied to my directory on the server.
At home, I perform the same task and all my changed files get copied to the
another hard drive. Before I got the second hard drive, I backed up my files to
floppy disks (a ZIP drive would have been better but I didn't have one).
Did I miss something in the original reply?
Don Timmerman, dtimmerman -at- anl -dot- gov
Sr. Technical Writer
Argonne National Laboratory (near Chicago)
