On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Walter Sheluk wrote: > I have become less paranoid about doing back ups such as the old advice of > mailing a back up copy to a friend or burying a copy in the backwoods. ;-) If > something goes wrong these days ido an archival install, apply a combo > update from a DVD copy plus any other Software updates Apple finds.
The 'mail a backup copy to a friend or bury in the backwoods' is not for restore purposes, but disaster recovery purposes. The best, most meticulously tested and verified backups in the world do you no good if they burn up in the same house fire as your computer. :-) Software is replaceable; data is not. photo and video projects (particularly if they're your business, paying hobby or juniors first steps) are not reproducible in most cases. This is something we have to keep and update plans for here at the College: we literally have to plan for 'What would we do if the whole building burned down'; 'what would we do if a pandemic was declared and the UA Shut down' (we're associated with the University Medical Center so pandemic planning is something we're deeply involved in). We have ALWAYS rotated one full set of backups off site. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
