Comments on: Are Your Backups Actually Good? http://www.followsteph.com/2009/06/22/is-your-backup-solution-actually-good/ Follow Steph through his real estate and business journeys Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:09:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: shashikant http://www.followsteph.com/2009/06/22/is-your-backup-solution-actually-good/comment-page-1/#comment-109660 shashikant Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:47:58 +0000 http://www.followsteph.com/?p=1219#comment-109660 very fine very fine

]]> By: elina http://www.followsteph.com/2009/06/22/is-your-backup-solution-actually-good/comment-page-1/#comment-107445 elina Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:30:57 +0000 http://www.followsteph.com/?p=1219#comment-107445 its extremely important to have backups ready at all time.I know how it feels.thanks for the information.going to help me too its extremely important to have backups ready at all time.I know how it feels.thanks for the information.going to help me too

]]> By: Steph http://www.followsteph.com/2009/06/22/is-your-backup-solution-actually-good/comment-page-1/#comment-105285 Steph Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:26:00 +0000 http://www.followsteph.com/?p=1219#comment-105285 They of course have to know about this issue, they have customers encountering it all the time. And I can only imagine some of the nastier emails when they can't backup because their backup is also corrupted. Short term the customer is happy, until they experience a catastrophic failure. Seeing as you don't get infected with viruses everyday, most likely the customer has been with them for some time before they encounter any issues. Sure after they major failure you lose the customer, but in the meantime you've basically milked them for a year, maybe two, or if you're really lucky for several years. That's the difference between building your business for the long haul versus making a quick buck. In this scenario, the company knows that their product has some severe shortcomings and they don't plan to fix them. What they're really offering is a false sense of security to their customers, not real protection. But whatever, they're making money today. Definitely NOT my kind of business! They of course have to know about this issue, they have customers encountering it all the time. And I can only imagine some of the nastier emails when they can’t backup because their backup is also corrupted.

Short term the customer is happy, until they experience a catastrophic failure. Seeing as you don’t get infected with viruses everyday, most likely the customer has been with them for some time before they encounter any issues. Sure after they major failure you lose the customer, but in the meantime you’ve basically milked them for a year, maybe two, or if you’re really lucky for several years.

That’s the difference between building your business for the long haul versus making a quick buck. In this scenario, the company knows that their product has some severe shortcomings and they don’t plan to fix them.

What they’re really offering is a false sense of security to their customers, not real protection. But whatever, they’re making money today. Definitely NOT my kind of business!

]]> By: ryanvines http://www.followsteph.com/2009/06/22/is-your-backup-solution-actually-good/comment-page-1/#comment-105282 ryanvines Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:08:38 +0000 http://www.followsteph.com/?p=1219#comment-105282 Thanks for the post.Your post looks very important to me .Acctually I also do the same as the lady you mentioned,but from now on I will be a little more careful in backing up my files .Now I came to know about the real time,thanks again. Thanks for the post.Your post looks very important to me .Acctually I also do the same as the lady you mentioned,but from now on I will be a little more careful in backing up my files .Now I came to know about the real time,thanks again.

]]> By: Steph http://www.followsteph.com/2009/06/22/is-your-backup-solution-actually-good/comment-page-1/#comment-104424 Steph Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:25:10 +0000 http://www.followsteph.com/?p=1219#comment-104424 Hi Karen, For everything but a disk image, you should be able to just try to restore a backup to another directory. For example, can you retrieve old files from your external drive, etc. As well, and very importantly, try and imagine how you would retrieve a backup of your data (disk image or even just files) from 3 months ago (assuming you got the virus 2 months ago). How would you do it? As for the services/applications, I still very much use the same. The only difference now is that at my company <a href="http://www.landlordmax.com" rel="nofollow">LandlordMax</a> we use a NAP (dedicated storage device) located on the network instead of external drives. We use the DNS-323 device with mirrored raid for our NAP. Very nice little machine, and it's incredibly quiet. The only thing is that if you do get the DNS-323, I recommend getting the version 1.0.5 firmware, we had a lot of problems with versions 1.0.6 and 1.0.7. I don't know if it's still the latest thing, but it's been great for us. Hi Karen,

For everything but a disk image, you should be able to just try to restore a backup to another directory. For example, can you retrieve old files from your external drive, etc. As well, and very importantly, try and imagine how you would retrieve a backup of your data (disk image or even just files) from 3 months ago (assuming you got the virus 2 months ago). How would you do it?

As for the services/applications, I still very much use the same. The only difference now is that at my company LandlordMax we use a NAP (dedicated storage device) located on the network instead of external drives. We use the DNS-323 device with mirrored raid for our NAP. Very nice little machine, and it’s incredibly quiet. The only thing is that if you do get the DNS-323, I recommend getting the version 1.0.5 firmware, we had a lot of problems with versions 1.0.6 and 1.0.7. I don’t know if it’s still the latest thing, but it’s been great for us.

]]> By: And now, a word from your hard drive http://www.followsteph.com/2009/06/22/is-your-backup-solution-actually-good/comment-page-1/#comment-104380 And now, a word from your hard drive Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:38:48 +0000 http://www.followsteph.com/?p=1219#comment-104380 [...] Grenier, of Landlord Max, wrote about testing backups yesterday. I’ve pondered this problem. It’s a partial solution to dutifully kick off a [...] [...] Grenier, of Landlord Max, wrote about testing backups yesterday. I’ve pondered this problem. It’s a partial solution to dutifully kick off a [...]

]]> By: Karen Tiede http://www.followsteph.com/2009/06/22/is-your-backup-solution-actually-good/comment-page-1/#comment-104373 Karen Tiede Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:53:39 +0000 http://www.followsteph.com/?p=1219#comment-104373 Something I've pondered--testing the restore on a different PC. I'm not enough of a PC-expert to be absolutely sure that what I'm seeing on a test restore (or equivalent) is what's coming from a backup and not something on my still-functioning PC. Plan on taking my backup drive to a (trusted) friend's PC and testing there one of these days. Question: Do you still recommend the same services / applications you recommended in the 4-step article? it's been a while... thx Something I’ve pondered–testing the restore on a different PC. I’m not enough of a PC-expert to be absolutely sure that what I’m seeing on a test restore (or equivalent) is what’s coming from a backup and not something on my still-functioning PC. Plan on taking my backup drive to a (trusted) friend’s PC and testing there one of these days.

Question: Do you still recommend the same services / applications you recommended in the 4-step article? it’s been a while…

thx

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