[H-GEN] Assistance Required

James McPherson - TSG Engineer James.McPherson at Sun.COM
Tue Mar 26 23:29:06 EST 2002


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On 27 Mar 2002, 03:20:49 PM Arjen Lentz wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 10:14, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> > > >  * If it works, buy a sodding tape drive already.  Two if possible.
> > > Or burn CDs. For a business, that can be nicer; creates a nice archive
> > > that lasts for a while.
> > Sure.  Either-or.  Both if possible.
> Yes. For a system wide backup, something with larger capacity (and more
> speed) may be required.
> But to backup things like contact/customer database, e-mails, business
> administration (invoices, fin.books, etc), etc.... a CD-R can do a very
> nice job with very little hassle for the user.
> This is important, because in a small company, there won't be an IT
> person looking after the backups. It'll probably be the owner, and they
> will have many things on their mind, few of which are technology
> related. If technology is only a tool, that tool must be as easy as
> possible.
> In the minds of many, changing a CD is still easier than running a
> rotating schedule of tapes...
 
sure, but as long as you do not get into the trap of saying, "we've always backed
up to cd-r, we won't need anything else in the future if we grow larger"....
If your strategies do not keep pace with the value and volume of the data then
you're leaving yourself wide open.

> I'd love to be there, but I'm flying to Europe for our general staff
> meeting. I guess that's the fun (as well as a downside) to being part of
> a virtual company ;-)

who says it's a virtual company? I'd say it's a global company using virtual
teams ;) -- like Sun, IBM, HP... only a little smaller at this point in time.

hope your flight is comfortable!

James
(who doesn't relish flying to LAX or SFO at 14 hours each way)
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