I am in vacation and I just got a phone call that my home has been burgled. My wifes PC is gone, with lots of data practically impossible to restore. But, data are saved with BackupPC ...
Lessons learned: (1) My principal reason for installing BackupPC had been protection against data garbled due to user mistakes and destruction of data by system/disk crashes - this kind of incident needs to be added high-up in the list of motivations for investing into a backup infrastructure. (2) I had thought that maintaining two sets of data - the original data and the data on the backup server - provides sufficient security. It is not, I was fortunate that the burglar did not find the backup server (I am running BackupPC on a small home LAN). I urgently need to extend my security by periodically saving the backup data to something that is kept at a safe place (I will probably buy an external disk). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
