Bull - I will not rise to the emotional bait, but I must correct a point of fact. You stated that one of your reasons for believing that Iomega is about to crash is that "the company owes a lot of $$."
This is just not true. At the end of the second quarter, Iomega had 160 million dollars in cash on hand. Yes, they do have some long-term debt, including the 28 million dollar, three year financing deal for the Panang plant. However, their total debt situation isn't bad at all.
And I have a question for you. You back up your files on a webserver? Who maintains the webserver? How do you connect to it? These are serious questions, because I want to know. The main reason I'm curious about this is that I am a networking systems professional, and I have never known any company to use webservers as backup devices.
Usually the data is stored on file servers, and the file servers are backed up to tape. (8mm, DLT or DAT.) Sometimes there are dedicated backup servers, with large tape drives, or tape changers. The users just leave their PCs on and connected to the network, and the backup server picks up the data over the wire.
I'm not saying it isn't possible to use a webserver for backup, I just want to know how you go about it.
And in particular, how does a home PC user back up to a webserver?
- Allen |
