On 30 Mar 2010 at 15:59, dhbailey wrote: > I won't use the internet for storing my > backups -- nothing's truly and verifiably secure on the > internet and nothing's to prevent some such company from > going out of business just at the time when I need to > restore those files to my hard drive.
You seem to be under the impression that one backup is ever sufficient. It's not. In my 20 or so years of work as a computer tech, the only time anybody has ever lost anything that wasn't recoverable from a backup was because multiple levels of backup failed. To me the perfect example of this was the failure of the Roosevelt Island Tram in NYC a few years ago, where riders were stranded hanging in the tram over the river for hours and had to be rescued. The tram had a main motor and two backups. The main motor failed, and the backup failed. The second backup was in the shop for repairs, so people ended up stuck. Two levels of backup failed. You are not safely backed up if you have only one backup strategy -- have at least two if not more. And any loss of one backup should be irrelevant. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
