By Philip Churchill on April 30th, 2008
What Is Your Backup Strategy?
There are two types of people in the world. Those who HAVE lost data, and those that WILL. Which are type of person are you?
That is a great statement and I am in the same category as the author of the article Paul Hammond, in that I HAVE LOST data.
Paul’s article is a great read and he concludes by saying:
WHOEVER YOU ARE, WHATEVER YOU DO WITH YOUR COMPUTER, WHATEVER FILES YOU HAVE, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP STRATEGY THAT SAFEGUARDS *ALL* OF YOUR DATA. Do it now. Turn the TV off, and get working.
Read it here.
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It’s bad enough to know WHS has got a proven data corruption design flaw in it’s WHS Drive Extender code.
But now, according to Microsoft representatives, changes introduced in Vista SP1 affect how Microsoft’s SQL Server database behaves in certain situations, potentially resulting in data loss or corruption.
There’s been no word yet on when the bugs will be patched also. Maybe it’s just bad luck that Microsoft’s own software can corrupt data when the OS updates are applied…
Until we get more information about exactly what causes the data corruption, we have to assume that this same gotcha might be lurking out there for other business applications, as well, just as KB 946676 is doing for WHS!
What’s going on with Microsoft these days?
Find me something that works just as well or better out-of-the-box.
Backing up is becoming more of an issue for home user with all the media stored on on home computers.
The main conclusion I came to in my blog was that the best backup solution is to have an external hard drive because you get large storage, decent transfer rates, low cost per gigabyte and they are portable.
Whatever backup device you choose you will have to marry it to an automated backup system. I like SyncToy and Robocopy for this.
So I recommend you using an online backup service copies it runs continuously in the background so you don’t have to remember to backup your files and are inexpensive. Personally I use ZenOK Online Backup 2011. and it does pretty good (http://onlinebackup.zenok.com/)