RE: [taxchat] Great Backup System

What type of storage does the cartridge use?

 

My feeling is that you need a multipronged approach. Any one system you're using could be failing and you might not know that this is happening. Did they suggest doing a test restore on a regular interval and replacing the cartridges on a scheduled basis? Both might be prudent if that's the only thing you use.

 

As for on line backup, I think the security issues are not that great if you upload encrypted data to which only you have the key.

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From: taxchat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:taxchat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Stevens, Equi-Tax
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:25 AM
To: taxchat@yahoogroups.com; 'TaxTalk Listserv Members'
Subject: [taxchat] Great Backup System

Hello all,

I recently attended the Gear Up Technology seminar.  One of the instructors, Rick Oelerich, EA, recommended a system from Quantum called GoVault.  He said you can back up your entire hard drive, applications and data.  He said the first backup takes awhile, but after that it only takes a few minutes because it only adds new files or changed files.  I decided to try it.  The first backup took a full 24 hours to get 42 GB.  Now it only takes 13 minutes.  I do it at the end of the day and take the backup cartridge home.  If the computer’s hard drive would fail, I could be up and running very quickly with the backup cartridge, which could be copied to a new hard drive.  There are 2 models to the system, an internal dock, or an external dock that plugs into a USB port, and a variety of cartridge sizes, ranging from 40 GB up to 320 GB.  I got 2 160 GB cartridges.  I also use a mirrored hard drive to give me up-to-the minute backup, but the problem with that is that if the hard drive begins to fail, the mirrored drive will be recording identically.

I was backing up to an external hard drive connected to a USB port.  It would back up during the night and take about 2 hours.  I would then exchange it with a second drive in the morning, and repeat the process.  I like the new system better because I get an immediate backup that I can take off site right away.

Both instructors at the seminar, Carl Heinz, CPA, and Rick Oelerich, EA, did not like backing up online because of security issues.

John Stevens, EA
Stevens Tax & Accounting, Inc., dba Equi-Tax
1870 - 50th St. E., Suite 8
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55077
651-773-5000
FAX 651-457-4529
equitax@unique-software.com
www.equitax.net

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