All
After being in charge of corporate disaster recovery, I became a dedicated
backup person. I backup my PC hard drive to an external hard drive using
robocopy every morning first thing. It takes less than 5 minutes. I rotate
between several external hard drives so I have at least 2 days backup. The
first of each month I rotate one of the external hard drives to a bank safe
deposit box. So if the house burns down I still have backup to install on
new PC.
I've been doing this for over 25 years since I retired from Florida Power
and IT Director.
Every once in a while, I do go to backup to restore a file I've seriously
corrupted while doing software development.
I know some people use cloud backup, but I don't think it would be as fast.
I also worry about cloud security.
I'd be interested to hear what others do, and what the group thinks are best
practices.
Don Higgins
d...@higgins.net
www.don-higgins.net
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List On
Behalf Of Seymour J Metz
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 7:02 PM
To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: John Ehrman Assembler Text
I back up everything to a USB thumb drive. I used to have a friend keep
every other backup for off site storage, but due to COVID I keep them at
home now.
They're not fast, but they're dirt cheap, so you can afford multiple
generations.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List on
behalf of Tony Thigpen
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 4:59 PM
To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: John Ehrman Assembler Text
I had all my important stuff backed up. I was not backing up my SOFTCOPY
directory due to the size and the fact that I can always get most of it back
from the original site. Since I started this thread, I went back to an older
PC and pulled my SOFTCOPY directory off it. I am now going to back up some
of these larger directories every so often to a backpack disk.
Tony Thigpen
Bob Flanders wrote on 8/13/20 4:36 PM:
> How bad was the crash? Any chance of using a recovery service like
> https://secure-web.cisco.com/1GKMRD7_PoKwLVzO8MrXLdeo8sOuJ-5G1OqcZMJrh
> 4UBYVpW6yJ4pjGzyaDuotjAemTjy2hDZc5lB7jOLGCvjT4AxYbPmC6YsPYY1dsb3DaXqf3
> -DyEiyDZr_mQmMQSV68dBfnHPJ3dm97gS_Kj5OjIpE2-np3Z8tUNi-z561C4u57L_OJms1
> q0voB6aajx1jJbTWtKdVnbMw7-k0jJELmXVMkjlWAgj1kluXd_oqb3u3OQc6nEjkjcw0pu
> MURB4ejHB4bUeZklMyUtACKk1Lh_n6ynymffN3uDvFxuvBQBj5U92f3KH7fv0GDKymEfaZ
> D6s0pbyujy2d6Q5LLm0yF8F1vCavGXITH3qXfbXVA3Hu7GkXwOWyk0LXvUHuu1IfGCN2_b
> PvCOsGDdeYHwHanvhC2dvAuG2kfv48QIM-j6Z20NUB5OnPdEvPUCxoAv75/https%3A%2F
> %2Fwww.securedatarecovery.com%2Flocations%2Fnew-jersey (Assuming your
> are in Jersey...)
>
> Regards,
> Bob
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 8:24 AM Tony Thigpen wrote:
>
>> During a PC crash, I have lost a bunch of softcopy manuals including
>> my copy of John's book and the downloadable material.
>>
>> It appears that Marist has re-done their web pages and the originals
>> are MIA.
>>
>> Did anyone put these on another web page somewhere?
>>
>> Tony Thigpen
>>
>> John Ehrman wrote on 4/21/16 3:08 PM:
>>> Some materials that may be useful to teachers of IBM mainframe
>>> Assembler Language are now available on the Marist College web site,
>>> along with the text itself.
>>>
>>> The two items are PDFs with (1) lecture slides for Chapters 1-8
>>> (sorry,
>> I
>>> ran out of time before I could do the rest), and (2) pages with
>>> mini-slides (also ch. 1-8) followed by some notes lines where a
>>> lecturer can jot notes for use when projecting the full-size slides.
>>>
>>> They are available at
>>>
>> http://secure-web.cisco.com/1DO1T_M1dWqPB3nLX3TYJksxHHRhNRlgJKfTD_N1q
>> ggiMQL3vM_7FjOrywkOfW1MqGXQ6sb6-e6cNhlkVUOGxJ5IHEqvxc12raL13-P52s9-LF
>> viPzATI2z0uk4oK2hHGzijCRM-0WZ1JOnwLUoYGNaBeLMUsaFW8A6FPuUwgQiC8CAT7-c
>> R4N62QLiTRQlHfC0qG2Iw9GJB5tewnPlbRsaS-HTH-peZQpu26QD4ki_Q4nqFyX2xHrsV
>> s3iPCsKPfXoksaWqKaUi37b4pbcJUUQIt42L-Os_SdipsXWYdoGrOu6ZaSt99KTUCMwdz
>> 72PBrJITvcwjRt0nu5YwoniThSAfuyMygz50jHMxqT_iCxn65y0CGZ_UuK4sUOCxHqIrv
>> zXJ0GA-b9qI-tEJ1b_fTLdw1woxZt_6GScFMOpdd5vgWU3fTr85KJpmEjxgB945/http%
>> 3A%2F%2Fidcp.marist.edu%2Fenterprisesystemseducation%2Fassemblerlangu
>> ageresources-1.html
>>>
>>>
>>> and if you want to access them by a different route, try
>>> http://secure-web.cisco.com/1AWCnwfwl9J03o0wO8G0M0k8Y02umS6P2UvLyjsa
>>> xdMNkTR8GYTaigvcIq7j-Jefs_j3osguEbqup_2gdU6MWNeHJO38yzo3O1DoXJFuOXmz
>>> 3vxSo4SdVFunJtKhkyCHyooEC_OBHtxvl1znKAHZa50ZxlJLqspyuEUNMQp8rvMRkv7O
>>> Tcurq5SvFqaG16qwMostlRM29ZFZHZJ2D7Q2gIh0Pw0i8NZr3iw2yczzdCZt6KR4Dn9p
>>> 0RrX6N4wASNu1T3d1v0aGX-SI7KtDYT3IkEowjZtuePKBvwvGqLKvlB39QU0wLaeZeQO
>>> XskMgE0wZPti7gBcsQX-_ZzuYejlYQu9DTqhO4zPHr32bBwlwzNAHgv4Fed7WnOlYrIW
>>> iZsiKYYaSYn8HvywrtydzULmsxslQjmjn1zaNVY0s9qCliAbAvwu8I51dQdvsFjrcOGw
>>> I/http%3A%2F%2Fidcp.marist.edu and then hover over "enterprise
>>> systems
>> education"
>>> to get a drop down where you can
