[AccessD] OT: But only Partly

Yes, with small businesses this is a challenge. Not having an IT
person/staff usually leads to the "secretary" doing the duties of backup
media management. Now a good, trustworthy, reliable secretary is one of the
best assets a small business can have - but IMO is somewhat uncommon. 

I find the even the standard tape rotation is a challenge. Many non-IT
people don't seem to readily grasp the notion that restoring a file that was
found corrupted today doesn't mean it wasn't corrupted yesterday and we
might need to recover it from the more distant past..

On a related OT note:

Just yesterday I received an email from a small office client who is doing
the standard daily, weekly, monthly, annual tape rotation/retention scheme.
The backup starts after business hours and runs through the night. She asked
me for clarification on what date she should be listing the back up as - the
day she put the tape in or the day she takes it out? Uhmmm... how is that
not clear?


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:22 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: But only Partly

Hi Jim et al

Yes, this is to possibly eliminate any "single point of failure". Thus, you
should always have at least two independent backup systems.

If you - for practical or budget reasons - have to trust a single point,
this must be proved to be very reliable. Think of a mono-engine airplane.

/gustav