15 Mar
2006
15 Mar
'06
1:22 p.m.
On 3/15/2006 at 2:24 PM Doc Shipley wrote:
It's possible to create a near-fault-proof data
storage procedure.
As most anything else, you do a balancing act between time, expense, and
portability. If you're willing to put a lot of money in it, you can
almost totally automate things. If you're willing to spend lots of
hours soing the archival, you can do it nearly free. Making it
platform-independent adds either time or money or both.
One of the things that I have had to pound into customers' brains is that
if the data is really important, store it in a safe place onsite and a copy
off-site. Securing something in a 4-hour safe on-site will rarely protect
any computer storage media for very long if a fire breaks out.
Cheers,
Chuck