[Dxbase] I'm more anal about backups....than anyone

[Bill]

One thing that I have not seen mentioned is the importance of "archiving"
the files.  Ten copies of the files made ten times a day in ten different
countries, will not help when you find that the file has some internal
corruption.  It is important when considering backups, to remember that if
you copy your backup file OVER the previous backup file, you have no where
to turn.  All of your copies will be bad.  Sometimes file problems may not
be found until much later than the damage appeared.  Sometimes it can be
operator error and a mistake made that does not show up until much later.
It you do not have a well planned series of backups done at previous times,
you still have very limited backups.  It is a good idea to as many steps
backwards in time as you can afford to keep.  

Bill
K9DUF
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-----Original Message-----
From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of FireBrick
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 6:46 PM
To: DXBase List
Subject: [Dxbase] I'm more anal about backups....than anyone

I have a .bat file that runs nightly, (computers run 25/8) here.

The .bat file saves to 3 machines on the network, 4 different hard drives.
and 6 different flash/SDR/UD type cards.

and of course I have a shortcut to run the .bat file manually.


and...just to be overly anal.

my FTP program backups my logs to an off site storage facility...nightly 
except during contest weekends.


can anyone top that?


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