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I just spent this Sunday afternoon filling out a police report identifying the items stolen from an office break in. In all honesty, our greatest loss appears to be from the lack of frequent off site backup. Computers and servers can be replaced, information can't. The police have asked for the serial numbers of the stolen goods and the estimated value. We had begun an inventory previous to the breaking, but I'm not sure the extent of this information. Don't get caught with your pants down.





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Ddraig Breuddwydia....www.tailofthedragon.com
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....and then keep the tapes right beside the server.
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David
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We had a case where the IT department thought they were doing it right - BUT never checked.
Guess what - when we needed them - they wouldn't work. We lost three weeks of data - a LOT of data.
The head of IT and this is a BIG comapny lost his job about as fast as it took to make a backup.
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Don Phillips
http://worthingtonengineering.com
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Luck is a difficult thing to verify and therefore should be tested often. - Me
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Don Phillips
http://worthingtonengineering.com
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Given that hardware failure is not if, but when, I'm always amazed.
XP supports encryption, just save the certificate with the key to see the data again.
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We use Microsoft Small Business Exchange server and it's been great, but one of the problems that arise is the immense size of the exchange backup file. Think of all the mail you haven't thrown away yet... All of that is balled up into a single file that wouldn't transfer over a common small business internet connection. I am going to work on a disaster recovery plan for my office and when I have an outline, I think I am going to start a new thread. I'm sure large companies have such a think but we are a small office, no outside consultants here...
We are up and running thanks to an excellent choice of IT consultants Emerald City Solutions, he's also a Cad consultant so if you are in the Seattle area look him up...