Why is it important to back up?

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:12 pm

There is this guy, lets say his name is Mr. Screwed. He's the regional sales manager for the east coast. On his laptop resides all sales data for the east coast, as well as a few hundred hours of his finest PowerPoint Presentations.

He keeps them there because he created them and does not want to share them

So his laptop died and he paniced. We asked him if he had a backup and he said..... NO

We made the arrangements for his drive to be resurrected through a data recovery company in the event we could not do it here.

He shiped it to us overnight and it wound up on this plane...
http://www.nbc10.com/news/6831768/detail.html#

Total loss, burnt to a crisp as UPS puts it.

Remember kids data loss can happen to you so be ware...

Post by **Grudge** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:22 pm

lol, sales management

Post by **BlueGene** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:25 pm

Any word on how much money he will be getting out of this, if any?

Post by **Transient** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:26 pm

I back all my shit up monthly. If the house burns down, I'm fucked though. :icon32:

Post by **seremtan** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:27 pm

lol, satan fried his laptop to teach him a lesson

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:34 pm

just goes to show ya that common sense doesn't come with the territory

Post by **S@M** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:40 pm

backed up to a server hosted in teh room next to me :O
moving our servers off site, and adding a back up of our back up to a second server. Should do the trick. Problem with backing up is getting ur stuff back when and how you need it too. I hate retrospect.

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:56 pm

S@M wrote:backed up to a server hosted in teh room next to me :O
moving our servers off site, and adding a back up of our back up to a second server. Should do the trick. Problem with backing up is getting ur stuff back when and how you need it too. I hate retrospect.

yeah we have the same issue using an outside firm to trasport our backups offsite once a week. The just changed it to 4 hour delivery wich is forsing us to redo our disaster recovery plan :icon27:

Post by **Turbine** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:32 pm

Where do you work?

Post by **andyman** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:43 pm

Post by **Sanction** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:47 pm

The specialty pharmacy I work for had several shipments on that plane. Probably tens of thousands of dollars lost in that fire.

Post by **menkent** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:53 pm

that's why expensive parcels are generally insured.

Post by **Sanction** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:59 pm

The company's insurance should cover it. For expensive shipments, they are insured.

Post by **Canis** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:19 pm

....hah!

Post by **bitWISE** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:31 pm

That's hillarious.

Post by **Tormentius** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:00 am

S@M wrote: I hate retrospect.

My predecessor used that on one of my networks. BackupExec owns it in every possible way IMO.

Post by **tnf** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:19 am

I'm due for a backup.

Post by **eepberries** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:29 am

Post by **plained** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:18 am

backup a frozen turkey

Post by **S@M** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:09 am

plained wrote:backup to a frozen turkey

fixed

Post by **ajerara** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:17 am

I do the bookkeeping at work and I'm pretty good about backing up, cause I know how important the info is, you just do not take any chances with stuff like that. Foolhardy.

Post by **losCHUNK** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:02 am

holy shit

thats some brains and luck

Post by **"Jesus"** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:41 pm

back-ups not that important......
no really!

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:32 am

Jesus lost his new ride because I adblocked it.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:35 am

[quote=""Jesus""]back-ups not that important......
no really![/quote]

Can you ressurect dead drives?