Backup: Beware of Using Web Host Disk Space for File Backup

Link: Backup: Beware of Using Web Host Disk Space for File Backup. Since I periodically post about one of the most important things a computing lawyer can do to protect his or her data: BACKUP, I am also combining the obligatory BACKUP post with a caution about web hosting backup data. For the same reasons you need to be careful with web hosting critical office applications, it can be dangerous to trust your backups to a web host. Data can be lost, erased, or otherwise rendered useless. You are lawyers, people. Read the contract. Backup Hard drives, CD and DVD media is so cheap, and backup software like Norton Ghost is so easy to use, there is no reason not to back up. I set Norton Ghost to image my drive, and then go watch the surprising Rays win another game. Takes about 2 hours for a 100 Gigabyte drive. Keep 3 to 5 rolling backups for further security. Of course, any storage device can fail; I just like having mine in my hot little hand. Now, go watch a baseball game.

Comments

[Norcross]

Building your own fileserver is so simple, I don't understand why more people don't do it.

That being said, I'm going to the game tomorrow.

[Hyde Park IT Support]

I don't understand why more people don't back up important things more often. It's easy to do; it just takes a little bit of thought.