Last week we talked about how my brother and cousins and aunt and uncle back up (or don’t). This week brings us the last two major players in the family backups department, my father and my stepmother. (My mother doesn’t own a computer. I tried getting her one, and she gave it to my great-uncle—whom I should also ask about backups, come to think of it. I wouldn’t want to give unfair preference to … [Read more...]

In a sidebar to an article about lost, stolen, and strayed data, ComputerWorld gives us the Auto Warehousing Co, which backs up to both disk and DVD every day, then ships the DVDs to the home office every month, as well as transmitting the data over a private network.The article's other sidebar provides a checklist for preventing backup security breaches.Oh, and the conclusion of the main article? … [Read more...]