[P1] Woe is me...

[Jack Rodgers]

On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 04:37  PM, Eric B. Richardson wrote:

> Which just goes to show that no system is truly redundant if it is not 
> backed up off-site as well. That was in my backup 101 lessons, make 
> two back-ups and store one somewhere else. What happens if your office 
> burns down? Or someone flies a jet into it? It is clear that American 
> businesses understood true redundancy or when the WTC went down, a 
> number of firms would have lost all their data.


This reminds me, I have a clients Filemaker server making unique back 
ups every 30 minutues, 1 save per hour. So we have in effect 112 or so 
backup files spread out on two hard drives. I also make a CD-R backup 
whenever the mood strikes and give him the disk.

So, the question is, what is the best method for encrypting the data on 
the CD or maybe creating a disk image with a password?

To add a bit of data, it took almost 5 minutes to make one backup of 
150 Megs of files using a Zip Disk, USB. The same backup takes about 10 
seconds to a 7200 rpm ide drive inside the G4 Tower.

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The US Army is destroying 31,500 tons of nerve agents and highly toxic 
blister agents at a projected cost of $24 Billion Dollars. Someone 
suggested they could make money selling it on eBay under the Weapons of 
Mass Destruction category.
Jack Rodgers

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