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I used to do a full daily backup to a CD-RW and then store the disc in
my desk, in case something bad happened to my PC (hard drive failures,
etc.). My supervisor suggested that I start taking my backup home with
me, in case something bad happened to the building. Since then, I have a
small case with 5-6 discs in it (Daily plus Archives), and that case
never spends the night in the same place as my PC: If I take the PC home
with me, the discs stay at the office, and vice versa.
If something bad happened to the entire city, as tragically happened to
New Orleans this week, I suppose that my data might not survive me.
Anyway, this is a personal initiative, not company policy.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:05 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Tech Comms for disaster relief
>
> Yes, and also because most off-site data archiving plans
> implemented by companies smaller than IBM or GM usually
> involve archiving the company's IP, not its current project
> or financial information. I've yet to encounter a company
> that had the capability of recovering data created "the day
> before yesterday" from off-site archives; usually,
> information that fresh is backed up on some server right in
> the building.
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