Charles, Would you be interested in being on the NSS Nominating Committee? I'm the chairman. I need someone Web savvy to update the Web Site now and then. Ellie can get access for you.
Hope so. Bill Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Charles Goldsmith <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:39:32 To: Mark Alman<[email protected]> Cc: Rod Goke<[email protected]>; TexasCavers<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Re: archiving your cave data No matter what type of archive you use, be it tape, external drive, online storage, offline internal drives or cd/DVD, it's imperative to have redundancy and test your backups routinely. Any large company does this. Also, never store both copies in the same location. A house fire is terrible, but you wouldn't want to lose both copies at once. I'm in the process of setting up a mirrored raid setup over a VPN, and while my offsite storage isn't ideal for a true disaster due to distance, I feel I'm reasonably protected. You ideally want 50 miles separation for disaster recovery site and I'm at about 15 Anyway, you can easily mix and match media, copy on an external drive and also on an internal. Or external and DVD A backup is only as good as your last tested restore. Nothing is worse than trying to restore some lost data and your backup drive fails, or the cd isn't readable. It's important to test your backups routinely. Charles On Dec 19, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Mark Alman <[email protected]> wrote: > Because they crash, too, Rod. > > I have a $150 100GB ext. HD paperweight with a bunch of data that is > lost now. > > > Mark > > From: Rod Goke <[email protected]> > To: TexasCavers <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, December 19, 2009 3:23:31 AM > Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Re: archiving your cave data > > Why archive data on CDs or DVDs at all? Why not use external hard > disk drives instead? >
