Upgrade to Lion - backups

[Ralph DiMola]

I may be old school but in my data centers I do the following:

1) Raid arrays for local disks so no disk failure will either stop
production or incur data loss.
2) Either rotating off-site tape backups or raid disk swaps of current data
will take care of water/fire/wind.....
3) Rotating tape backups with n number of dailies and unlimited monthlies
will take care of: OOPs I deleted the files
4) Mac "Time machine" or Windows "restore previous versions" for mid day
deletion or quick restore.

Do all the above and your golden.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Tim Jones
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:58 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: Upgrade to Lion - backups

And ... what do you do if part of your failure instance includes a lack of
network connectivity?  No way back from that one.  Just saying...

Tim

On May 31, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> OIC that makes sense then. I priced out some of these online backup
systems like Carbonite, and by the time you pay as much as a 2 tb drive with
enclosure would cost, you could have paid for a 5 year subscription to
Carbonite. 5 years is as much as you can expect a drive that is used for
Time Machine to go. Mine is on the verge of crapping out, so I am
considering just paying for an online backup instead. Trouble is, full
backup and restore is s  l  o  w   .   The next tier though has a local
drive backup as well as the online backup. 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On May 31, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote:
> 
>> bob,
>> 
>> alternate drive is for redundancy if a drive were ever to poop out and I
keep one off site or in a firesafe if here as well for the theft/fire issue.

>> 
>> I learned this thru a friend who had a very redundant backup system. only
problem was not good about offsite and there was a fire in the office took
out everything with fire, heat, smoke, and water damage... another friend
had his laptop and the backup drive attached (only one) stolen from his home
-- again SOL.
>> 
>> also ive had a couple of drives go by a head coming loose and that pretty
much leaves you with nothing to recover...
>> 
>> main drive system is a redundant raid as well. few hundred buck
investment over the years gives me a nice safety net and this system has
spun along fine now for 5 years w/o any hickups due to the drives. my
experience with backup systems has been total murphy's law.
>> 
>> watching a few other folks trying to recover from a data disasters has
taught me as they all took huge number of hours (translate that to work
hours lost), bucks in data recovery efforts, and im sure a few weeks of
their life expectancy...
>> 
>> over the years ive dealt with most kinds of tape and cartridge backup
systems as well with clients and companies ive worked with and most have
worked but talk about a pain to reconstruct, was rarely easy or fast, hence
when drives got cheap enough i moved fast!
>> 
>> cheers
>> 
>> jeff
>> 
>> On May 31, 2012, at 3:33 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Should not need to alternate drives with Time Machine. 
>>> 
>>> Bob
>> 
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