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Thu, Jun 25 2009 15:49

Death by Delete - Backups, backups and test your backups

"One day, a developer was optimizing the database and removing records that MegaPetCo no longer needed. All it took was a single, poorly formed delete query to wipe out each and every row in the database table." "... but that was the least...
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Thu, Jun 18 2009 16:16

Steps to think about when doing a data MDB back up, compact or zip.

I have a button on my Granite Fleet Manager app which allows the user to do a backup of the backend data MDB. I also have two other buttons which zip and email the backend data MDB to either themselves for backup purposes or to me for support purposes...
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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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Sat, Nov 29 2008 13:53

How are your personal backups?

Including all your photos? And your Outlook and Outlook Express files which are, last I read, stored in a sub folder of your Application Data folder and not your My Documents folder? "The GpCode family is a dangerous form of malware which can permanently...
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Tue, Aug 12 2008 17:59

I don't trust the "cloud"

"Can you trust your data to the cloud? For users of an online storage service called The Linkup, formerly known as MediaMax, the answer turned out to be a resounding "no."" Loss of customer data spurs closure of online storage service...
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Wed, Jul 9 2008 11:53

... hit the big green TRANSMIT button.

... hit the big green TRANSMIT button. You know, to transmit it over the stockroom’s intercom. The Free Bird Database . So nice to read that lack of testing backups isn't a problem only in this century. Or indeed the last forty years.
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Mon, Jan 14 2008 0:47

A ten year old backup came in handy today

I got volunteered into building a volunteer database for the 1997 Alberta Summer Games. (I later made some money off of the database later so my hundreds of hours did turn out to be somewhat profitable. But as I'm halfway through building the database...
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Fri, Nov 9 2007 19:46

Backup, backup, backup

Error blitzes health records - Thousands of hours of work by health board employees have been wiped in a computer glitch. And what about their offsite backup? Unless there are extenuating circumstances, such as the person just took the job, the IT administrator...
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Fri, Oct 26 2007 21:23

Making copies of your database during the working day

The following question came up as part of a newsgroup thread. When you say "make a copy every hour or two", do you really mean that your normal practice during development is to retain multiple separate copies saved at 2-hourly intervals rather...
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Sun, Oct 7 2007 17:22

Have you made a recent copy of your files and photos?

And is that copy offsite? Have you made that copy in the last week or so? And not on a thumb drive either! You have to have at least four or five copies because thumb drives and DVD-Rs can also die or be in a fire. Daughter of Ted Byfield burned in his...
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Sat, Aug 4 2007 14:21

The Institute for Backup Trauma

The Institute for Backup Trauma starring John Cleese nicely illustrates some of the basic problems we encounter. And does so very, very well. Although I haven't seen a failure rate of tape backups as high as 50%. There was just a short story in the...
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Mon, Jul 9 2007 13:42

Egyptian poet pleads for stolen works to be returned

Egyptian poet pleads for stolen works to be returned The relevant paragraph is "Mersal's office was broken into in the early hours of June 17 and her electronics and black laptop bag were stolen. Inside the bag were both backup copies of her...
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Wed, May 9 2007 14:28

Classics Week: Immaculate Backup

http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Classics-Week-Immaculate-Backup.aspx
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