..which reminds me of an inventory control system for a major
manufacturer who carefully backed everything up to tape using
a father/grandfather system. The tapes were stored in a fire
resistant, securely locked room. The system crashed and the
father tapes were mounted only to have the tape drive fry the
back up tape. So what did they do? put the grandfather on to
the same tape drive. Moral of the story: your back-up has to
be just as secure as your original, and even then there is no
substitute for keeping your brain engaged.
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, David Kempe wrote:
> 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
>
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> Sent: Monday, 6 March 2000 8:28 AM
> To: 'Peter Williamson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> article
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>
> 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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