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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (21575)	2/1/2002 10:59:59 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Respond to of 60323

The test: If your PC was captured by the FBI in a terrorist raid, how long would it take you to come back on-line? When was the last time that anyone made a backup of your desktop PC at your office? (If you don't know and you can't find anyone who can answer that question ....). Are either of the above "back-ups" available on hard drives located somewhere other than your home or office? What evidence do you have that your backup software is working properly? When was the last last anyone tested those backups? Are you prepared to lose EVERYTHING you ever recorded on your PC since the time of their/your last test? FACTOID: Most companies run year after year thinking that they can survive a worst-case failure but few bother to test their backup systems until AFTER they experience a significant failure. Most of the time, those companies can not recover their backups and then fail as "going concerns". You don't read about these companies failing because there's no one left to respond when the Wall Street Journal calls a few weeks later. And, when ordinary people have PCs that fail, they show up first in the unemployment statistics. Please ... make timely backups. Craig

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (21575)	2/2/2002 10:04:46 PM
From: rll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

What works for me is RAID-5 using 4 hard drives and backups onto removable DVD-RAM disks. If one of the RAID-5 array drives fail, you replace it with a new one and then it will recreate the failed drive's data on to it. If two or more drives fail before regeneration, then you have the dvd's to recover from. Your suggestion of backups remotely stored is a good one but I find difficult to manage with daily incremental backups. I'm with you though, tape backups SUCK! rll