From: James Sentman <james-AT-sentman.com>
Date: 08 May 2008 06:15:18 UTC   (10:15:18 AM in author's locale)
To: xtensionlist-AT-shed.com

On May 7, 2008, at 10:00 PM, nz_no_junk wrote:

> Ditto the recommendation on Seagate drives. I have begun swapping
> out my Western Digital drives in favor of the larger capacity
> (500Gb) Seagate drives inside my G4 Sawtooth. And among the
> thousands of leased laptops at my employer, the Hitachi DeskStar
> (DeathStar) drives notoriously fail at the worst possible times.
> Compared with the time and hassle of recovery, not to mention real
> loss of data, extra backups are much easier to afford these days.

You guys have got me paranoid now. While I always backup my XTension
database when I make changes to it, I haven't mirrored the drive
itself in a long time now and I'm off to do that now! Then I"m going
to order a couple of big drives to raid backup our stored backup and
media data which is also on that machine.

On top of that my Time Machine backup went goofy yesterday too!
Started suggesting that there wasn't enough space anymore even though
there was only the backup folder on the drive and nothing else and it
was not able to make even a single full backup anymore. So I'm re-
running that from scratch now.

I'm usually pretety paranoid about backing up the important data. Make
DVD burns of all the family photos periodically and copy them to a
shared drive here and I even carry a tiny little 2gig usb stick on my
keychain that has an encrypted disk image on it onto which I copy all
the source code and other important things I might want to have with
me when I escape a natural disaster...

Thanks,
James

James Sentman sentman.com MacHomeAutomation.com