Simon King wrote: > Good advice from the best teacher, experience. > One other suggestion would be to always store your backup CDs in a different > location to your "main" ones. Preferably a separate site or building, but at > least in a different room. This reduces your exposure in the case of > fire/quake/theft.
I'd second that. I have several important files which represent a lot of work on a software project. Loss of this means a lot of work down the drain. So I'm quite thorough with my backup procedure :) I have the development copy, one backup on another machine at home (not on the system partition), another backup on a floppy disc, another backup on my PC at work (on the D: drive so if the machine needs reinstalling it won't affect me - and I refuse to put the files on my "user" drive due to copyright issues), and yet another copy on a machine in the US (which is the "running" copy). Any disaster that could take out all of that will be of such magnitude that I'll be more concerned about other things, so I can rest easy :) So far the only file loss has been floppy discs that go bad, which happens quite regularly. The disks I was using were a few years old, and I stick them in my pocket to take them to work (to copy onto that backup)... so they do get a bit of wear & tear. Cheers, - Dave David A. Mann, B.E. (Elec) "Why is it that if an adult behaves like a child they lock him up, while children are allowed to run free on the streets?" -- Garfield - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
