Quick Backup survey
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
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3.) Yes. "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use. It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
- Yes. I feel a great need to backup often and I do. I never leave the office without an up to date backup of my most recent work, and do offsite backups almost daily. The thought of loosing even one line of new work is one I don't wish to contemplate. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. Free Trial at www.getsoft.com
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use. It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
I backup the projects directory on our server onto my PC every night, then once a week back that up onto a DVD+RW and take that home (swapping between two discs). Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use. It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
Colin Davies wrote: 1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? 4.) Have not found a 120 gig floppy ;) Seriously, most of the time the work is duplicated on multiple computers. Every few months the dev trees, vss and databases are backed up on CDs (no DVD burner yet). Wish Windows had a backup program like they did in the past where you could actually do a restore and have everything functional again. Could run automated full system backup regularly between multiple computers that way. Had an idea a couple years ago at work I thought would be cool. In today's world (and back then) most normal office machines only use a small fraction of the space available on their system. Thought it would be great to be able to allocate a portion of the that available space on all those machines as backup space. The main controller server could have all the information about the size of space delegated for back on all the machines along with a reliability rating and normal hours of operation for each machine. This would allow only systems that are powered down each night to store backups of only items that would be required during the day. A system that is a little flaky may only be allowed less critical backups. In the system, normally, they entire system would be mirrored on multiple machines. This would allow all the machines in a corporation to be redundant backups of each other. The odds that all machines would take a dump is very unlikely. Anyway, it was a plan I came up with a couple years ago. It was a way to utilize all that wasted space. An 80 gig drive with only 10 gig used. Rocky Moore <><
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use. It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
Colin, I've never done a need analysis. But I do backups whenever gut feeling tells me it's time. I always backup to CD and across the network at home. When does gut feeling tell me it's time? Whenever I emerge from a frenzy of coding and think **** I don't want to have to do that again. Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use. It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
Our backup strategy: Full nightly backup of all IIS, SQL, VSS, File Server data to the disk of another machine and to tape. One weeks nightly backups is kept on the backup server. One weeks nightly backups is kept on tape. Four weeks worth of Thursday backs are kept on tape. Full weekly backup of all IIS, SQL and VSS data compressed to 6 or 7 CD's. These are kept forever. Differential backup of SQL databases at 6am and 7pm to the hard disk of the respective SQL server. These are also copied to the backup server nightly. Transactional backup of SQL databases every hour to the hard disk of the respective SQL server. I am looking at copying these to another SQL server and restoring them as part of the backup script so there is a failover server ready to go.
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use. It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
Colin Davies wrote: 1.) Have you done a needs analysis Only a minimal, knee-jerk reaction one. "Oh my god, if this stuff gets wiped, we're all in the deep s***." Colin Davies wrote: 2.) ...have an idea of how often you should backup Both of my development machines back themselves up nightly to removable media which is automatically ejected from the drive at completion of the backup. Each machine has its own set of media used in rotation. This backup includes ten days of complete copies of our SourceSafe data base, copied in toto from our corporate network (which is also backed up by the IT guys). Not to be too belt-and-suspenders, but my working copies of my projects get backed up onto a memory stick and go home with me every night.
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use. It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
Colon we never do any kind of formal needs analysis. We do daliy incremental user directory backups and full user backups are done when we recycle an incremental tape. All other data is archived when it accumulates. We have over a TB of medical images online and they only are backed up once. John
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use. It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
God yes. I'd like to make thirty with a full head of hair if I can.
David Wulff
"Without hopes and dreams we're directionless" - Anna
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use. It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
- Yes. I multiplied the star constellation with the temporal thickness of my left thumb, and decided on which files to back up daily, and which weekly. 2) Yes. I still have another thumb, and starry nights 3) Mu.
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use. It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
I haven't done a backup in weeks! #1: no. I figure I need to do it more than I do :-D #2: I used to do it every day, but then I changed my office setup and I don't do it as often anymore ...six minutes later... Ahhh, I feel much better now! :-D Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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1.) Have you done a needs analysis to see how often your system should be backed up? 2.) Even if you haven't done a needs analysis but have an idea of how often you should backup, do you do it? 3.) If you answered "No" to 2 is it just lazieness? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use. It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
Not a formal needs analysis but a quick assessment. I back up correspondence and development files at least once a month and have a set of rewrite CD's labeled for each month. Additionally I cut single write cd's of my data (source code and my genealogy) each time I consider a major change has occurred. Lastly I will cut a single write cd every so often when I get a feeling disaster is about to strike. I do believe in Angles because those cd's have saved me more than once! "For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."