A very useful strategy came to my notice yesterday. I am the
secretary of the Albany of the Albany Summer School which started on
Monday. One of our lecturers, from Melbourne, had misgivings about
the integrity of data on a USB stick which she was using for the first
time, about 40MB of PowerPoint presentations for two weeks of
lectures. As it transpired, in fact, the USB stick got left out of
her luggage anyway but at someone's clever suggestion she had
previously emailed all the material to herself as attachments, broken
into seven bits. A distraught tutor yesterday morning, gave me her
access code for Gmail and I quickly raced home, retrieved the items
and put them on a CD and had her visuals on display by soon after
10.00am. This seems to me a brilliant way of "backing up" data in the
short term for situations like this, accessible anywhere in the world
where you have internet access and more or less free.
I recount this tale with a happy ending for the benefit of anyone
interested.
Severin Crisp
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Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au
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