Memo from Obvious-land - data backups
A sad story but one that could have been prevented with a grain of thought.
From
BBC News:
Coppola plea after computer theft
Film director Francis Ford Coppola has appealed for the return of his computer backup device following a robbery at his house in Argentina on Wednesday.
He told Argentine broadcaster Todo Noticias he had lost 15 years' worth of data, including writing and photographs of his family.
A script for his latest film Tetro was on one of the computers taken, along with camera equipment.
But his publicist said copies of the script were saved elsewhere.
"They stole our computers; they got all our data, many years of work, said Coppola, 68.
He said the backup that rested on the floor in the Zoetrope Argentina studio, based in his home, was just "a little thing but the information is (worth) much time".
"If I could get the backup back, it would save me years [of] all the photographs of my family, all my writing," he added.
It's not
IF you backup, it's
WHEN you backup, you move that stored data off-site.
If you use a hard disk (actually one of the best ways to go), get two units and swap them back and forth.
Posted by DaveH at September 30, 2007 7:57 PM