I'd be happy to help out. Web updates are easy, anything else I need to be aware of?
Charles On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > ________________________________ > From: Charles Goldsmith <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:39:32 -0600 > 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? >
