Comments on: Tuesday Tech: When hard drives crash and burn http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/10/data-recovery-and-backup/ Talking about websites Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:28:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Abi Bowling http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/10/data-recovery-and-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-1975 Abi Bowling Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:01:31 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=1329#comment-1975 SJ -- I'll have to check out SOS Online Backup -- Thanks for the recommendation! SJ — I’ll have to check out SOS Online Backup — Thanks for the recommendation!

]]> By: Emily Cotler http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/10/data-recovery-and-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-1974 Emily Cotler Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:53:56 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=1329#comment-1974 Good thinking! With as many gigs as we back up every day, though, safe and sound AND far away isn't always the best option for us. We regularly burn the gazillion DVDs and send them offsite. And in the case of earthquake, I grab my kid and our external hard drive back-up and I get the H out. We are always exploring more ways to stay backed up. I love hearing how others manage it. One of our clients used to wear her thumb drive around her neck and kept her work-in-progress on it. Funny. Good thinking! With as many gigs as we back up every day, though, safe and sound AND far away isn’t always the best option for us. We regularly burn the gazillion DVDs and send them offsite. And in the case of earthquake, I grab my kid and our external hard drive back-up and I get the H out.

We are always exploring more ways to stay backed up. I love hearing how others manage it. One of our clients used to wear her thumb drive around her neck and kept her work-in-progress on it. Funny.

]]> By: S. J. Day http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/10/data-recovery-and-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-1921 S. J. Day Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:23:08 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=1329#comment-1921 I use SOS Online Backup (recommended by PC Magazine and the Wall Street Journal), in addition to the safety measures I use at home. That way if disaster strikes, everything I need is safe and sound far, far away. :) I use SOS Online Backup (recommended by PC Magazine and the Wall Street Journal), in addition to the safety measures I use at home. That way if disaster strikes, everything I need is safe and sound far, far away. :)

]]> By: Emily Cotler http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/10/data-recovery-and-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-1890 Emily Cotler Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:57:43 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=1329#comment-1890 With over 25G of active files, backing up with version control for us is still a major undertaking. Since we skipped the 10.5 OS (I would have had to upgrade our time-tracking software and they keep making it worse, so I dug in -- we are moving to 10.6 very soon, though), I have not had a chance to try out Time Machine, but I have heard it's wonderful. For us right now it's still an exercise in dragging the entire active file folder over to an external hard drive day after day. We have a bunch of external hard drives, and their names are Young Fred, Old Fred, Big Fred, and Giant Fred. Yellow Submarine anyone? With over 25G of active files, backing up with version control for us is still a major undertaking. Since we skipped the 10.5 OS (I would have had to upgrade our time-tracking software and they keep making it worse, so I dug in — we are moving to 10.6 very soon, though), I have not had a chance to try out Time Machine, but I have heard it’s wonderful. For us right now it’s still an exercise in dragging the entire active file folder over to an external hard drive day after day. We have a bunch of external hard drives, and their names are Young Fred, Old Fred, Big Fred, and Giant Fred. Yellow Submarine anyone?

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