Pindell, Tim P wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
>>[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of
>>Barry Oliver
>>Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:51 AM
>>To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>>Subject: Re: DML: OT: Network / Server
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>>Bah, either your data is secure from loss or it is not. That
>>whole home vs corporate mentality assumes that somehow, home
>>user data isn't WORTH as much as corporate data.
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> It isn't. At least with my "work" hat on. Its an exercise in economics,
> both in human effort and money. Your data (work or personal) is as
> important as you (or your institution) wants it to be. Security costs
> time and money. How much do you want to spend? I don't waste my time
> or money at home with the same care that I take at work. Neither do many
> backup device or software manufacturers. Maybe I just care more about
> other peoples' stuff than I do my own. (The cobbler's son never has nice
> shoes.) I operate from the perspective that the things that impact the
> greater number of users require the greatest amount of capital. I have
> roughly 5000 users for whom I have to back up mail and data files.
> Plus, my customers (students) upon whom all of us depend for a paycheck,
> have important financial and academic info to be secured and backed up.
> They all (staff, faculty and students) depend on me to keep it safe and
> available. A single home user simply doesn't match up. Seriously, I do
> know what you mean. From an end-user's perspective, their personal data
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>>is< their corporate data. I just hope they don't expect me to drop
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> everything here at work and fix their home system for them. I hope that
> I just didn't completely overreact!
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Ok, everything you have said is true, right up to the point of the loss
of perspective. If a hard drive dies [they do] and data is lost, it is
a hardship. Most corporate and government networks employ backup
strategies to minimize this hardship. Many hardcore geeks [myself
included] do to. My point is, it dosen't cost much in money or effort
to have a very effective backup scheme. Especially when the bulk of the
tools are readily available. Backing up family photos, tax data and
whatever else dosen't take much effort and only a little planning..
Home users that do not back up their data in a secure manner are asking
for the same type of trouble as if they had no insurance...
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