"And take pictures of your house - furniture - silver - jewelry - everything! Thousands of Katrina victims wish they had! This is something I still need to do because I live on the ocean and will have to evacuate someday too." Do that even if you don't live on an ocean! We were burglarized. Same problem with the insurance company. And, if they take your computer, one of the items often stolen, you're out of luck. Backup, Backup and put somewhere else, even if it's a garage or a shed, although watch for heat and cold on CD's. Just food for thought Hate to lose 30 years of work, or so. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 12:04 AM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Fw: [OHPICKAW] Re: CD's >A word on backups - remember that no backup is any better than the storage > site for it. If it's stored in the same location as the original, it will > be > destroyed in the same fire. So make backups of your computer files or any > important documents you may have - but store them somewhere else - take > them to > your office - your mother's - your babysitter's - anywhere! > > Part of my job prior to my first retirement (obviously not a taker!) was > disaster recovery for a multimillion dollar computer system. We ran > backups every > day for every file and they were immediately shipped offsite to another > building of our's. For my current shop, we run backups daily and whoever > is handy > takes them home. It's simple - just get them out of the building where > the > original is! > > And one more thing - (ok then I'll hush) - scan any photos to files and > take > them too. And take pictures of your house - furniture - silver - > jewelry - > everything! Thousands of Katrina victims wish they had! This is > something I > still need to do because I live on the ocean and will have to evacuate > someday > too. > > Bev > > In a message dated 1/12/2006 1:09:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > 2. If hosted on a professional hosting service there are > (hopefully) tape backups, but those too are subject to problems > and may be missing, not made, or damaged in writing. Further, if > there is a fire, probably both the disk drives and the backup > tapes are lost. I've too often lost a client's web site to a disk > failure only to find the host's backups were bad or non-existant. > > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >