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[Arjen Lentz]

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Hi,

On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 14:29, James McPherson - TSG Engineer 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.

Certainly!
This should always be the "do note this if you ever grow much larger..."
Definitely a good thing to cover in the backup forum/story/...


> > 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.

Hehe yeah. Interesting angle ;-)
Total of 30-40 people at the moment, by the way.
We just generally call it a virtual company because we don't have office
locations as such. Sure we have a HQ office in Sweden but that's just a
few admin people, and a little office in Finland just because a few
people happened to live in the vicinity. Apart from that, most of us
work from home offices or whereever we happen to be.
I do think that is quite different from the other companies you
mentioned?


> hope your flight is comfortable!

Unlikely ;-)
But I like travelling anyway.

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

Yeah, bad enough.
Europe is generally something like 12-13 hrs, stop in Asia, 8 hrs. The
stopover may only be a few hours itself. When you arrive, jetlag doesn't
even come into it, the flight has been so long that you're only tired
from travelling. It doesn't really matter what time of day it is ;-)


Regards,
Arjen.

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