That reminds me of something else it's worthwhile pointing out in your
seminar - In Office, or whatever suite you use, make sure Autosave is turned
on, and work out how often it should autosave. And always save a document
before printing.
Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kempe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 6 March 2000 09:04
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] [OT} Data backup horror stories -was
> stolen compter
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>
> That reminded me that my mum, a DTP/contract secretary gets
> clients every so
> often that have their thesis or resume on floppy only to have
> it wiped by
> their mobile phone.
> Sometimes the magnetism when a phone is switching cells or do that
> beep-dada-beep noise is easily enough to fry a floppy. I
> think it depends on
> the phone model and make, older Ericssons seem to be bad offenders.
> The client will get out of the car, hand over the disk to
> have something
> designed or printed and mum will be like - This disk is
> blank... and they
> are like no its not i just got it today ad put data on it
> this morning...
> So yeah watch out for mobile phones and floppys.
> My motto is "Back up what you can't afford to lose" that may
> mean backing up
> every minute if you cant afford to loose that work!
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Andrew Langton
> Sent: Monday, 6 March 2000 8:28 AM
> To: 'Peter Williamson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] [OT} Data backup horror stories -was
> stolen compter
> article
>
>
> Just remembered another one :)
>
> I used to work at Macquarie Uni as an operator back in 91. If I had a
> dollar for the number of times students came to me, desperate
> because their
> thesis or assignment was on a floppy disk that couldn't be
> read anymore, I
> would have been earning a decent salary :) So many people
> kept only one
> floppy disk. Obviously these days with HD and networks,
> people don't use
> floppies so much, but it still happens ocassionally. Moral -
> never have the
> only copy of something on only one floppy disk.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, 3 March 2000 21:26
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [SLUG] [OT} Data backup horror stories -was stolen compter
> > article
> >
> >
> > People
> >
> > I am about to give a short seminar to my depts users entilted
> > data 101 -
> > Keeeping you data safe. It will be a run down on backup
> techniques and
> > physical security for laptops etc. It will particularly
> > targeted at those
> > users involved with high risk data i.e manager types with
> > valuble corporate
> > data on laptops.
> >
> > I would appreciate any horror stories that you might have
> > that I could use.
> > Of course you would make any neccessary changes to protect
> > the innocent
> >
> > Peter
> >
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