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Monday, January 14, 2008 12:47 AM

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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Friday, November 09, 2007 7:46 PM

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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Friday, October 26, 2007 9:23 PM

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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Sunday, October 07, 2007 5:22 PM

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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Saturday, August 04, 2007 2:21 PM

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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Monday, July 09, 2007 1:42 PM

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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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:28 PM

Classics Week: Immaculate Backup

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