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Just a friendly one millionth reminder…

We know you’re super busy staying up-to-date on all your YouTube channels, but… you might consider taking a sec to back up.

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Don’t rely on end users to backup. Do it for them secretly in the background. Then you look like a hero when you magically make their data reappear.

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Working in corporate, this is not something I will ever see.

First job every morning is to check last nights backups, do a test restore, sign the form to say I’ve done it.

Users will never have anything to do with backups because:

  • They forget

  • It’s too difficult

  • They don’t understand the need

  • They don’t understand the risk

  • They can’t be bothered

  • They’re users

“Previous versions” is enough for most problems and 90% of my users think I’m a wizard when I pull that one out of my sleeve.

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I have just one rule regarding data protection: backup, Backup, BACKUP. I keep at least 3 copies of anything that’s important. I keep 4 or 5 copies of critical data in multiple locations. If something is only important for a short time, I keep 2 copies.

I always give a lecture on the importance of this the same day I assign the first audio mix many my students have ever done. I have a student this semester who decided this wasn’t important - until his flash drive died the day the mix was due. I always tell my classes up front that technology failure is not an accepted excuse for not getting assignments in on time (there are enough computers in the lab, and the lab is open plenty of hours Monday-Saturday).

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I keep telling people in my office that even if you’re working on a document/spreadsheet/etc always save it on the server so it can be backed up. If you save it on the computer you could lose it. I do have people that still haven’t learned not to save to the root drive.

Same practice with any network/server equipment. Make a change…back it up

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this is why I have automated backups on all my hosted gear, and all my users save to drive, dropbox, etc. No user intervention required to maintain backups as well as point in time restore.

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So you’re saying I should consider doing a backup.

I’ll write down a reminder so I don’t forget.

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Backing up is something someone else does.

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I always informed users for saving their important data on server folder as server drives being backs up regullarly.

I do check server backups day to day and tried to test restore once in a month.

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Wish I had the storage personally to backup. I have a few bits and pieces backed up but that’s it.

Trying to convince most of my clients to backup…ha!

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My users know that if they save to their desktop or anywhere else on the PC that data is subject to loss because we do not backup PCs.

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That is why we have shadow copies of backups running. User(s) have lost some files because they accidentally deleted it or moved so I just pull up the shadow copy and BAM! File back!

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Yup. That’s the right take away from all this.

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hahaha… if you can’t get them to reboot for updates then 9 times out of 10 they won’t back anything up. Its probably just a good idea to have your own policy in place to cover as much as you can and test your backups.

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Did you try R for reverse?

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Or you look like a creep for having all their iPhone photos on a flash drive in your desk drawer. Either way though…good save.

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we use Veeam for automated backups. It works very well.

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Saw someone have auto backup copies among three sites… so it nicely propagated an old restore to all three…

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It would help if operating systems were designed to allow backups.

In the days before the predominance of webmail, numerous people lost their Outlook/OE email because they had no idea where the files were stored on disk, the program wouldn’t tell them where the data was, and the OS hid the containing folder from the user’s view.

Then again, there were numerous cases of faulty backup programs being supplied as foistware on new computers. An office in Sheltand got caught by that one, and lost all its data. The manger was diligently doing backups, too. Or so he thought. He was making coasters.

Probably the worst example was the accountant who installed Sage himself to avoid paying for my time, and got the setup wrong. Since the files were in the wrong location they weren’t in the backup. He lost his data. I spent a couple of days recovering it, disk sector by disk sector. He refused to pay, claiming the loss was my fault. I don’t often use the A-word, but I did this time.

Anyone else noticed that accountants are always the worst users for messing around with IT settings they have no right to be touching? Always beware the accountant who tells management that they need to have a copy of the IT passwords in the safe ‘in case of eventualities.’ No, it isn’t for eventualities.