Business 2.0 Doesn't Do Backups, Lost Entire June Edition(iht.com)
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Business 2.0 Doesn't Do Backups, Lost Entire June Edition
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/01/news/magazine.php
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They had a backup server. Misplaced automation is the villain. Makes sense to automate a task that you do 100+ times a day, but backups are generally run once a day, and are recovered maybe once a year.
My backup system involves a script with a bunch of copy commands that I can see flying by in the console as they work.
My backup system involves a script with a bunch of copy commands that I can see flying by in the console as they work.
Too bad they weren't using Mozy!
Classic case of 'Do as I say, not as I do' ;)
"How to protect company's data"
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/11/01/8392042/index.htm
"How to protect company's data"
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/11/01/8392042/index.htm
I don't know much about publishing, but I would think each department has a copy of their respective contributions. If I liken their editorial system to version control, why wouldn't, say, the art department have layouts on their local machines?
"But all is well, he said, and the magazine will go to press on schedule next week. The recovery was made much easier, paradoxically, by a bane of modern business: litigation, or at least the fear of it. "The text had all been copy-edited and sent off to the lawyers, so it had been saved as e-mail," Quittner said."