Backup Routine
8 January 2006, 18:54 by Chad Reynoldson
When I started this gig as a third party AMX programmer, I realized early on that I need a backup plan. No not an employment plan, a backup routine to save projects that I develop.
I actually had my first backup loss within weeks of starting. I had worked over 30 hours on a quoting package I was creating for the business. I was doing development on a brand new PC with a new 200G hard-drive, what could go wrong. Of course, the hard-drive crashed. The good news was it was within warranty. The bad news is I lost ALL of the quoting package, it was not re-coverable.
That was actually an inexpensive learning experience, I had only lost 30 hours of work (though it seemed much more at the time). With that experience I set out to create a backup routine that fit my needs and my budget.
I currently do not have a server (that is my next goal) at my office. So I purchased a Buffalo LinkStation 160G Network Storage Device. It connects to my network via ethernet, it is easy to setup, and it has 2 USB ports (one USB is for to turn my printer into a network printer, the other USB, well read on).
At the same time, I purchased a Buffalo DriveStation 160G USB storage device. This USB device plugs directly in to the LinkStation. This DriveStation has one purpose in life, to backup the LinkStation and all of it’s files. This is easy to do from the web configuration pages of the Linkstation, where you tell it to backup to the drivestation every day. I don’t have to worry about it, it just backs up, no PC required.
It does not end here. I subscribed to Strongspace , a secure place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file. Strongspace is secure, implementing only SFTP or HTTPS. I run a nightly backup to strongspace as another redundant backup.
No more lost work due to hardware failures!
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