And You Thought You Had Problems When You Lost Your Backup

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Ravonar — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:41:11 GMT

Being the managing partner of a law office and having dealt with many many hard drive crashed we have devised a fool proof a system as we can. Each computer has two hard drives that are ghosted to nightly, in addition each computer also synchronizes to a central server which also have 4 raided hard drives, so the data is on your desktop and the server and the nightly ghost is also copied to the server. Now, the server is backed up to 2 external hard drives that are switched out every 2 days into a safety deposit box. The server is also backed up to Carbonit (unlimited backup for a few bucks a month), www.carbonite.com every few seonds. In the event of total failure, theft or fire, we would use the externals to retrieve up the backups until the last couple of days then bring the rest back with carbonite. The whole system cost less than 15,000.00.

At home we use an HP media smart server that is raided for our backups and also subscribe to their online backup service.

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Guru — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:00:16 GMT

Similarly to the poor soul who lost his data, i fdisk'd and formatted a harddrive twice in preparation to a clean install of xp pro. I also am a computer specialist working at a major university in Oklahoma. Unlike the previously named individual, i had no trouble recovering my data with programs freely available on the web. He must have done a secure wipe of the drive, whereas i did not. Fdisking and formatting a hd does not remove all the data. My error was in not paying close enough attention to which harddrive i was working with... lesson well learned. The only real downside to recovering my data was that it took almost 24 hours to do so. It was an inconvenience, but tolerable considering what was at stake.

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Witch Doctor — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:51:38 GMT

Our nation's largest vulnerability (choose one):

A) Terrorism
B) Rogue nations with nuclear capabilities
C) Uncontrolled illegal immigration
D) Microsoft Windows

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PPARGammaGirl — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:19:20 GMT

Boy I bet the techie’s face was red when he realised what he had done! Data/identity fraud theft is obviously a serious problem. I will get Congress onto it immediately.

Yours sincerely

POTUS

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proatc — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:48:37 GMT

If companies would just use Macintosh computers, there would be no problems. Never have any problems with my Mac, no lost harddrives, no crashes, they are faster, can run Windows programs, and it is 3 years old! The new operating system coming in June(ish) called Leopard, will have a feature called time machine, requires a big hard drive , but not as big as Mercola's monster, but nonetheless, you can go back to the exact day you created the program/file whatever and retrieve it, even if you deleted it a month ago! And there will be no lost hours having to upgrade to the new system all of your other program unlike XP to Vista!
The only trouble I see is if everyone does start switching to Mac (>50%), then the hackers will have to create problems for that system as well, right now not enough users to warrant time spent hacking into them!
Once you go Mac, you don't go back!

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Josh Rubin — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:53:10 GMT

I love the holistic lifestyle and the people that encompass it. But unfortunately in my opinion they think with everything, there has to be a motive to udertake the world. We are all only human and no one is perfect!

We all came from a place of love. Once we get back to that, then balance will be created.

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Russ Bianchi — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:53:08 GMT

I have always wondered if some, or more than some, so-called computer hardware and software security guys, in the morning, or their day jobs, are indeed 'back-dooring', to create trouble at night, and working both sides of the techno internet street, doubling their incomes?

One absolutely FOOL PROOF protection system for larger users, that Uncle Sam is already widely using, after many breaches of computer security, and is rated far beyond anyone else's (including Cisco, Sun, IBM, MS-Vista, Google, Seagate's, etc., or their recent acquisitions in this area), as well as being touted "THE BEST" by real security experts, is: www.viack.com

Viack is a Warp-10 Star Ship, to everyone else's band-aid, or patchworked, 'horse and buggies', trying to HYPE themselves as the solution (which they ARE NOT).

If you want the most robust and complete security for the internet, or for your closed computer systems, or networks, it's: www.viack.com. No one else even comes close.

"Quality is long remembered (with VIACK) long after price is forgotten."

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enzo — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:05:47 GMT

Those geeks aren't stupid…It kind of makes you wonder just how "accidental" was it really. A sinister motive is possible in many areas…big oil, big state government…or environmentalists. Just a thought.