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Backup tapes
Posted on April 5th, 2009 No commentsWhen was the last time you tried to restore data from your backup tapes? A backup is only good if it is tested.
How old are the tapes? Tapes have a life. After a certain point they deteriorate.
What do you do with them when they reach their end of life? Do yo leave them on a shelf? or throw them in the garbage?
How are they taken off-site? Now think, your valuable company data is going home with who? and they are leaving it where in their house?
Do you have a mix of tapes from old systems that you don’t have the hardware or software from to restore them? Have you changed the hardware and software that you used to backup your systems? How do you restore data from your old tapes?
What happens in a disaster? If the place gets flooded; or vandalized; or a server crashes?
Please think thru these questions and answer them truthfully. It is your company data and keeping you running that is at state here!
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Losing your Memory? or just don’t have enough?
Posted on March 13th, 2008 1 commentOne of my biggest gripes with any place that you buy a computer at these days, is that they never configure it with enough memory!
I am not talking about those nice 160GB hard drives that store all your documents, photos and music. I am talking about your RAM, Random Access Memory. For if you get a computer that doesn’t have enough memory to run ‘all’ the programs and applications that you want to at the same time, then you end up with a ‘pig’! Although I have seen some ‘pigs’ run pretty fast, in the case your computer drags along. It takes what seems like an eternity to change screens, move from Outlook to the internet, from Word to your instant messenger.
Most stores sell computers off the showroom floor with what the manufacturer configured them with. If you new computer has Vista on it and you plan to multi task with it, like I have mentioned above, and it has 1GB of RAM, you are going to have a slow running computer.
Everyone that I have talked with, whether it is another techie or people that resell PCs, they agree that if you have a computer with Vista, and you want it to run ‘FAST’, then you need like 3GB of RAM!
YEAH 3GB of RAM, not 1GB! You don’t buy a computer so it runs just so-so. You buy one because you want it to be fast!
My advice is if you ever buy a new PC or laptop, just make sure it comes configured with at least 2GB if not more of RAM.
Some people might think that is too much. What do you think? Send me some comments on the topic.
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