Like John indicated, if you develop software for a living you need to
go the extra step to make sure you have a secure backup. How many
hours of work do you have to lose to justify $300-$500 expenditure?
I have a TR4 tape drive that I will do a system backup once every 1 or 2
weeks. This backup is designed to go into my safety deposit box
at the bank. Normally I will keep a cycle of 5-7 tapes.
I also have a 1.5 gig removable Syquest drive. I use this to backup specific
projects to an easily accessable drive. I also plan this to archive
non-active projects. I backup my currently active development
environment once a day or when I am sending an App update
to my client, or prior to starting a major change. I will normally keep
a 7-30 day series of backup. This is easy because you repeatedly
store the information in separately dated directory on the same disk.
This has saved many hours by being able to go back and look at
a program that I am currently updating.
Additionally, I have a 100meg Zip drive. I use this to interchange
data between my system and the client.
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>>I know this isn't a forum for backup questions but where to go!
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>>I run a home office and when I use the backup utility which is standard with win '95 I get more than 100meg which means I have to span zip drives (by the way Iomega were great about swapping out my zip when I got the click of death). However the win'95 backup just crashes out. It also doesn't warn you if there are files on the disk which can be deleted, it just crashes.
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>>What do other people use? I've surfed and just found "professional" type of backup information, nothing suitable for me.
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>>Any ideas?
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>If you're dealing with business data, you need to take the belt and suspenders approach. I have three nt servers at home, plus my development machine. I have a 1 gig Jaz drive and a 7 gig ditto max. I copy current projects from my workstation to one of the NT servers, then run a tape backup also. It then goes into a fireproof safe. What would happen if you had a fire and you had backed up to another disk, to tape and even to a jaz drive and the fire got all of them. You might even want to look at getting an off site location just for that, or purchase a fire proof safe.
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>John Harvey
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