Jan 11 2011

Plan B – You always needs a Backup Plan

There are two kinds of computer users – those who have lost data in a crash, and those who are about to.

It appears that a blackout in town this morning corrupted the database of our software program – which caused a problem when the server was restarted.

Bloody rain.

Some measures you can take may prevent this from happening to you.

These include

– having an Uninterruptable Power Supply (or backup battery), that can ‘order’ your server to shut down in an orderly fashion if the mains power is interrupted.

– a RAID system (where data is copied to two drives at the same time) is a godsend when you have a hard drive crash.

But neither of these prevented our database from becoming corrupted.

When you have a ‘mission dependent’ failure at work, as a cold sweat breaks out on your forehead, you may find yourself willing to pay anything for a timely backup, 

And now that all your photos, movies and music live on your hard drive, you need a reliable plan at home also.

Remember that taking a backup is half the work. You need to regularly perform a check restore of a backup to make sure that is working, and complete!!!!!!!

In the spirit of New Year’s resolutions, many sites have recently posted good advice about backing up your data.

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