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[Chris Denesha]

Kevin Stoinoff wrote:
> Our system has a local workfolder copy plus versioned backups on the server
> for our production system.  Worst case scenario is reverting to a
> non-corrupted version.  We try to help our customers get around those
> situataions as much as possible.
> 
> 
> on 11/6/07 1:19 PM, Steve Mills at smills at multi-ad.com wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:06:33, Rob Briggs wrote:
>>
>>> Thats what I figured. Thanks for your help.
>>
>> No nightly backup system in place? Shame on you!
>>
>> I'm curious though; how many companies in this industry run nightly
>> backups? When we had artists in our Minnesota office, all their
>> machines were backed up nightly. My 3 main Macs here at home get
>> backed up nightly. Seems like I've seen lots of corrupt files from our
>> customers who had no backup to fall back to. That indicates they have
>> no backup strategy.
>>
>> _________________________________________________________
>> Steve Mills   

We have an Enterprise backup system that backs up certain high-traffic 
server volumes hourly and the rest nightly.  We don't back up local MACs 
nor PCs, and encourage users to save to the server (SAN with dual 
clustered servers and lots of space).

Like Kevin, I also have the Designer's MACs set to DualSave locally the 
documents that they are working on - which are versioned on the server 
with our Roundhouse ad tracking system.

All workstations and servers in the building are on regulated UPS power 
- we'd probably have about an hour and a half (with controlled 
shutdowns) to collect everything we needed to transfer to another site 
somewhere..
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chris denesha
Advertising & Telephone Systems Support, IT
The Day Publishing Company
(860)701-4485; OR (800)542-3354, X4485
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