Lord of Warchalking - Transcript

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the car maybe in a weather proof safe and put it in the car. And bring it to work with if you are backing up the one at home vice versa if you are backing up one at work bring that home. But what Katrina has shown us was that if there is an area wide problem like Hurricane in Pennsylvania it could be a snow storm. It could be all kinds of different things it's not volatile earthquake wise there but there could be a fire that could be all kinds of things. That if the even of the hard drive isn*t in the same room if your car is in the garage and the whole place goes up well then you are kind of stuck there too. So how do you do this? Now, what you want to do is get your data as far away from your stuff as possible and the question is, is there any online service x drive www.backup.com any service like that is good enough fast enough reliable enough and that gives you enough space these days to do this effectively and efficiently. To do that you need two things first of all you need enough space on an online service where you basically monopolizing an entire hard drive to do the same kind of backup scheme that we have. Now certainly backup critical files but again you are at the mercy of your own best intentions. As we have said you know our strategy is on the air about backing up don*t even leave it up to yourself because you don*t know what*s important until you are missing it.

Dave: Right now I backup over them.

David Lawrence: So backup the entire thing and that way you can stream it all back on as I have had to do three times this year back it all back on to a brand new drive or on a new machine.

Dave: Yeah I had to do that once but it worked beautifully.

David Lawrence: So now the question is you use retrospect to do that, right?

Dave: Yeah exactly.

David Lawrence: Okay so then here is the question the question is can you possibly do that if you are online? How can you possibly do that if you are online? If you are online how do you get online with the new machine that then replaces everything on the hard drive that you had to build to get online and you know what I am saying so I think online services are a bit unwieldy for backing up plus retrospect does not work over FTP connections as far as I know. Now they do have other products in the line but certainly not the free retrospect express that comes from EMC on the Mac store one touches. I don*t believe that*s capable of doing the kind of backing up that you need so here is what I would suggest you to do. This is a great questions and it's a questions that is being brought up more and more after Katrina, how do we get things out of the entire metropolitan area that we are in. Maybe the state that we are in how do we do this you know like our servers at Rackspace are in San Antonio. If I would have backup just one of my machines just one the 12 inch PowerBook that*s a 100 giga hard drive and that PowerBook and right now I have about 6 gigs available so the first

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