[vip_students] Re: A word about backups!
- From: Frank Kelly <frankke@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:05:26 +0100
hi Paul
i use a couple of passport external drives
they are neat and can take 500 g of photos music etc
they just use a u s b connection and no power lead
great for backing up your stuff
and really tidy to carry about with you
frank Kelly
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul J. Traynor (NCBI)
To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 12:22 PM
Subject: [vip_students] A word about backups!
Recently I was chatting with a friend of mine who works in the computer
business. He mentioned to me about a customer he had come in to his store with
a computer badly neglected and in a state where it would be hard to do
anything with it. It was infected with viruses, spyware and malware and needed
major servicing. Unfortunately he discovered that the hard drive was damaged
and no useful data could be retrieved from it. He mentioned to me that the
customer was very annoyed and upset about this as he said he had photos,
documents and some work he had been preparing for someone on that disk. My
friend felt bad for the guy but what I thought was a bit much was that this
customer almost felt it was the technician fault his PC had let him down and
kept on ranting about all he lost. It got me wondering about how many of you
reading this have a backup plan in operation?. What about those documents,
photos, music and other items you have on your hard drive?, are they the only
copies you have of your materials or are you playing it smart and have taken
steps to backup your stuff onto an external hard drive, USB memory stick, CD,
DVD etc?. It's no good complaining about all you have lost when the PC goes
down. It's no use blaming someone who is trying to help and you then turn your
frustration on them if something can't be retrieved. Take a bit of time now to
think about your materials. Are they the sort of items that can't be replaced?,
if so put a backup plan into action and keep those files safe. Backup at least
once a week and then you can be assured that everything is safe whenever that
crash comes, because it's not "if" it comes but "when" it comes!.
Let us know here on the list some of your ideas so we can share them with
others.
Cheers,
Paul.
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