Posted on 12/03/2008 6:29:45 PM PST by smokingfrog
Backing up data is a pain in the neck. The only way to make people do it is to automate the process. Mozy does that.
Many of us have suffered a data-destroying computer crash. But some stories are better than others. Josh Diulio, a marketing exec from Monroe, Mich., left his HP laptop sitting on a ledge on the balcony of his apartment building while he ran inside to get a drink. When he came back a crow was perched on the open laptop. The crow, startled by Diulio, leaped up and away, tipping the laptop just enough that it fell seven stories to the street below—where, just for good luck, it was run over by passing cars. Then there's the tale of Duncan Mowatt, a graphic designer in Seattle, who was having trouble with an external hard drive. The cause was a mystery until one day Mowatt's girlfriend picked up the drive and saw thousands of ants and ant larvae pouring out of it. She freaked out (as one might) and threw the drive across the room, where it smashed into Mowatt's laptop and wiped out its hard drive, too.
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I think my grandmother had that one...
/dies laughing
Tough crowd!
I have the best method in the world for backing up data for disaster recovery. In fact I can restore not just yesterday’s data, but I can restore up to the last time a “Save” came through the I/O stack! In fact, I’ll guarantee your data is safe and can be restored in the event of a catastrophic failure.
Ouch, well at least you changed the discussion to water heaters for the rest of the post. Maybe someday I can be as smart as you, but now I am going out to buy one of them there tankless ehaters
Great, I hope s it improves your efficiency, and for a lot of people, i’m sure it can.
It’s not a matetr of how smart I am, it’s a matter of how much it will cost me compared to how much it could potentially save me.
Goood luck, let me know how it works out.
Oh, yeah, I know. $1000 labor which you’ll get back in 100 years or something, even assuming you don’t have to have your gas service upgraded. I’d never do it for the cost savings. If I ever did it, it would be for the “everlasting hot water” aspect, and it would have to be gas. No way am I going to pay triple. (Oh, forgot, triple minus 5%)
Still Thinking, my neighbor has a gas hot water tankless dealy. It works great and uses the standard 1/2” black pipe service. Nothing special. It’s for the whole house except for the bathroom sink, which I find odd. Luckily, as our town lost our gas service yesterday for about 12-16 hours. They had hot water at least, from that sink.
Must be a short run to the regulator/meter, I would think.
don’t keep me in suspense - what’s your secret
A true Obama voter.
Yeah, we discussed that possibility, and decided it was pretty much a given.
Oh no! Not until I’ve got my company started selling off-site backup services. I’m serious. Right now I’m trying to get the financing together to get up and running. But the technology I will use is already out there and in use in other ways. I just happen to have thought of a unique way to implement it.
In other words, he was being an IDIOT.
Cool. When do you think you’ll be able to tell us without having to kill us and yourself immediately afterward? Sounds interesting both in the abstract technical sense, and as an actual service to use.
“...I use multiple home backups...”
I worked for a major company and their IT operation was at the location where I was when I retired a few years ago. The mainframe data was backed up daily in triplicate and two copies were stored in different locations.
I have a new external drive for my local backup, and have been considering on-line backup as a multiple.
I spilled a drink once on a laptop - ruined the HD controller. Data recoverable, but not for the non-existant backups. Replaced the laptop.
I bought two identical USB external harddrives which I back up everything to. One is stored at my sister's house 80 miles away. The other one is at my house and periodically I swap them to keep the one at my sister's as updated as possible. The chances of the same disaster hitting her house as mine are slim. And if it does, I'll have much more to worry about than data.
I realize it doesn't provide as current an offsite backup as a daily upload to Carbonite, but I do have an offsite backup, and I feel better about my system than uploading my personal files - even if they are encrypted - to someone's server I don't know, and giving possession of them to who knows who.
Once I’m off the ground and actually HAVE a facility in place.
I will be marketing to business and government. People whose requirements call for secure, off-site backups. It’s too expensive to seriously consider for home use. Software licenses start at $2500 per server, annually, plus setup fees, bandwidth, and storage fees.
Without giving away too much, it will work like this:
Once the initial backup is made (to multiple backup servers, eventually at multiple physical locations), the data will be maintained in real time to each backup server.
Restoration, should it become necessary, can come from any of the backup servers.
I work for myself so my home IS a business application, but that still sounds a little too spendy. Sounds like a good system though.
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