atw: Re: File paths [RAID]
- From: "Kathy Bowman" <Kathy.Bowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:55:30 +0930
My HD doesn't stay in the car. I work north of Adelaide and the
temperatures soar in summer! I keep a HD inside at work in a secure
drawer, along with CD or DVD copies of important personal stuff - mostly
my photographs. I live in the Adelaide Hills, and work on the assumption
that my house could burn during a major bush fire. No amount of backups
at home will help me then. Offsite storage is an extra burden, and one I
hope never to reap the benefit of, but it is nice to know it is there.
cheers
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dawes, Nigel
Sent: Thursday, 25 September 2008 1:29 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: File paths [RAID]
Sounds like of lot of messing about. And, others' posts regarding
scheduled backup etc is a pain too.
Get yourself a couple of SATA external USB drives and setup a RAID
controller. It's your safest option and one I use with complete faith.
P.S. Leaving a HD in the car can't be good, esp. in summer.
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kathy Bowman
Sent: Monday, 22 September 2008 5:50 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: File paths
I have backups and backups. I backup to alternating external drives,
which I rotate regularly. One drive is always off site. In addition,
when I am working at home, I email the day's work to myself at work, and
for good measure put important bits on a thumb drive. So far so good.
:-)
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Brice
Sent: Monday, 22 September 2008 5:09 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: File paths
You should never save anything to a local hard drive - not if you value
it at all. Most workplaces provide network storage and with external
hard drives of gargantuan capacity costing microscopic dollars, there's
no reason to entrust anything to a local drive.
Anyone who's suffered a Windows breakage or complete hard drive failure
will know what a drama data loss can be. At the very least you should
back up to an external source.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Kathy Bowman
<Kathy.Bowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I must have been dreaming I was at home...
I use My Documents on my home PC, but at work I always use folders on a
network drive, because they are backed up and secure.
Kath
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Trussler
Sent: Monday, 22 September 2008 2:49 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: File paths
Dear Dinosaur,
I too, am finding the new world order a bit strange at times.
In the Government workplaces, My Documents is frowned upon. This is
because it is on the C drive and therefore
* not backed up,
* if the PC crashes all is lost.
* it is not considered secure.
Users there must store their documents in the network on either a
personal drive or in the shared drive for their project or team.
Do your baby dinos realise that they can make (or create if they are
gods) lots of sub-folders under My Documents, so that they have more
than just My Music and My Pictures.
Bob Trusslersaur
2008/9/22 Christine Kent <christine_kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Guys
Another seemingly odd question relating to the new world order
of Microsoft as it relates to base entry level computer users and how
they work with files.
This time, file structure.
As old timers, we create our own files structures under c:\ - or
at least I do.
As corporate workers, we create files structures according to
some corporate specification on some network drive or other, or in some
DMS.
But for the computer sub-literate, the Windows XP world of
folders starts with Documents and Settings, My Documents, and the Vista
world of folders starts with Users, Documents etc. They happily access
these from the Start Menu, ever using a window called Windows Explorer.
The real world - that is, users of home computers and people
training in or being trained by our low level education system - only
understand/s My Documents or Users. They have no idea they can pick a
location on C:\ drive, or that these mythical User or Documents
structures are actually on C:\ drive somewhere. They feel clever if
they learn to put a folder under My Documents.
My overlapping questions.
Are techos in corporate starting to use the Microsoft system to
define user profiles?
Is the world generally adapting to the Microsoft virtual view of
their virtual universe?
Are you using Documents on your home computer?
Are your kids using Documents on their home or school computers?
Up until now I have always taught people to use C:\ drive. Am I
being a dinosaur?
Christine
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Bob Trussler
Phone 0418 661 462
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