At 04:57 PM 1/21/2003 -0500, Walter Knapp wrote:
>Which brings us to backup, be extremely paranoid about
>computers. Have lots of backup, in more than one site. A multi year
>database is a lot of work to reconstruct.
You said it. In all my years giving people advice (free and otherwi=
se) about backups, I have yet to see anyone take it seriously until they su=
ffer a crash and the db goes bye-bye. I include myself in this group. Just =
in case one of the readers here will take this advice seriously *before* ha=
ving a problem - back it up, use serial backups, verify the backups (it rea=
lly hurts when the backup is corrupted DAMHIKT), and put them in a place wh=
ere the earthquake/fire/flood can't reach both the originals and the backup=
s.
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Chuck Bragg, Pacific Palisades, CA
Membership Chair
Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society:
http://smbas.cjb.net
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