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Thu, Jun 4 2009 19:32

ioSafe Solo USE External Hard Drive with Disaster Protection

Now here's an interesting product. ioSafe Solo External Hard Drive, Fireproof Waterproof Rugged USB in 500 Gb, 1 Tb or 1.5 Tb capacities. Note however that the fire rating is only 1/2 hour at 1500 F. While this is probably quite adequate for most...
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Sat, Dec 20 2008 22:23

‘Tis The Season To Think About Backups

An excellent blog posting ‘Tis The Season To Think About Backups . " Just this week a close friend as well as a colleague here at Microsoft had their houses broken into and their PCs with all their photos and videos stolen. Luckily they had done...
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Tue, Sep 9 2008 18:56

IT Disaster Recovery Planning for Dummies

An interesting blog posting about the above book - IT Disaster Recovery Planning for Dummies
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Sun, Aug 24 2008 17:06

Must read - The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley This book should be at the top of your *MUST* read list. Right after the Bible, Koran or other books important to your faith. How did all the 309 passengers on Air France flight...
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Fri, Jul 18 2008 19:30

Lessons from Vancouver - (water cooled) emergency generator failed

"But as soon as the fire department started drawing massive amounts of water in their attempt to contain the fire, the water pressure in the mains was reduced to a level where the (water cooled) emergency generator couldn't operate any more."...
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Tue, Jul 15 2008 16:46

Vancouver Power Outage Walloping Some Domain Owners

Vancouver Power Outage Walloping Some Domain Owners Some sites losing Telus phone service Gotta love that final quote "All of our major sites will not go down." So long as one of your major sites will stay up that will be good enough?
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Tue, Jul 15 2008 15:34

Power outage in downtown Vancouver extended

The outage caused by an underground fire at 9 am Monday morning in downtown Vancouver has been extended to Wednesday evening. 24 hour battery backup systems have already started failing. Power and phones out until Wednesday in downtown Vancouver Is your...
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Fri, Jul 20 2007 17:20

Using Terminal Server when a disaster strikes nearby

David Fenton, respected denizen of the comp.databases.ms-access and recently the microsoft.public.access newsgroups, has an interesting posting on a client who has an office near the recent New York steam pipe explosion. OT: Disaster Recovery I've...
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