Hello,
I almost lost data in a big way. My Compaq laptop HD died. I mean REALLY
died. Laptop wouldn't even see it. ( I know. I hate windows also, but I
code in Delphi so.....) I after a day of working with it I got it to boot
ONCE. Copied everything off it 3 times and test the copies so I knew I had
good data. Then it died for good 2 hours later.
This is my backup strategy now.
1) Get a Snap server from Quantum. My 95 & 2000 machines connect to it
over IP. My OS 9 machine can connect with IP or Appletalk. My OS X machine
connects to it as NFS. It is worth EVERY PENNY.
2) Get offsite storage. I use www.connected.com. 4 gigs of storage for
$15 a month. Having a backup server and/or discs & tapes are nice, but what
if there is a robbery or fire? There are Internet backup for macs also. Go
to www.retrospect.com site for macs. The data is compressed and encrypted
before it is sent. Worth every penny.
I came THIS close to losing a month of work.
Believe me, the ANY amount of money you spend for backups is ALWAYS well
worth it when you need it.
David
>
> on 13-10-2001 7:31, Jon Glass at jonglass_at_usa.net wrote:
>
>> I did lose my data, and it hurt. I lost about 6 months of work, which,
>> unfortunately, were six _very_ productive months. :-( Not only did my hard
>> drive crash, but my back up drive was dropped by my little daughter. I was
>> fortunate enough to have that "persistent" data on a third hard drive on
>> another computer and on my Newton. In fact, if it were not for my Newton, I
>> would have lost all my address and contact info. I still find things, three
>> years later, that I lost that fateful day. It's not fun. I try to backup
>> onto different computers, now, all important data. Redundancy, that's my
>> motto. :-)
>
> Hm, maybe I'm going to be even more careful in the future, in a way your
> story reminded me of Paul Guyot's hard drive that crashed in a major way...
>
>
> Robert Benschop
>
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