After last week’s meditation on using external hard drives instead of DVDs to back up photos, Loyal Reader Mike Van Horn responded with the following e-mail: My advice to you is, “Purge!” I look at my own backups of photos, and what I see is lots of garbage (at 1 to 2 meg each). Many duplicates of the same photo. Gobs of photos of people or things I never need to view again. Photos of all … [Read more...]
FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 1-27-06: Three Cautionary Tales
Today’s Backup Reminder comes courtesy of faithful reader Mike Van Horn ([email protected]). Here are my three favorite cautionary tales, from my own clients: Pat religiously backs up to his external hard drive. One morning he comes to work to discover that his securely locked office has been broken into. Bypassing the locked door, the thief pounded a hole through the sheet rock wall with a … [Read more...]
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