Re: Tech Comms for disaster relief

[Bryan Sherman <bsherm -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I have a 1 GB USB Jumpdrive that I copy all my data to daily. Very
portable, very quick.

When my Vaio took a nose dive to the concrete, and would not boot up
for a while, I was very thankful for the backup.

On 9/1/05, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> I used to do a full daily backup to a CD-RW and then store the disc in
> my desk, in case something bad happened to my PC (hard drive failures,
> etc.). My supervisor suggested that I start taking my backup home with
> me, in case something bad happened to the building. Since then, I have a
> small case with 5-6 discs in it (Daily plus Archives), and that case
> never spends the night in the same place as my PC: If I take the PC home
> with me, the discs stay at the office, and vice versa.
> 
> If something bad happened to the entire city, as tragically happened to
> New Orleans this week, I suppose that my data might not survive me.
> Anyway, this is a personal initiative, not company policy.

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