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Friday, September 02, 2011

A brief change of pace

So we along the east coast had a Hurricane (or ... tropical storm). Being without power at home for five days can remind a person about computing and technology (and ... electricity)

It also reminds me of doing backups and having a disaster recovery plan. I generally backup my laptop to an external hard drive once a month. I don't have financial information (like a company would have), but there are files I would like to keep.

In the past, I have had hard drive crashes - and while my work is not the same as a bank, insurance company, hospital, etc., it does hurt to lose the data.

So ... backups and having a disaster plan are important!!!

2 comments:

LT SCHUMP, U. S. COAST GUARD said...

Dr. White, I totally agree that it is mission essential to ensure we have adequate backups, i.e., a LACY hard-drive with all my military, personal, and financial documents stored so that when a natural disaster occurs, we are totally prepared.

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