Stueyb

Ok, its a slow tuesday morning n stuff. However, whilst backing up a laptop here I got to thinking how much the data on your laptop/pc is. I know we all say yeah, but.. and have month old backups that we aint tested and everything. But think of this,

That laptop you carry round is a thief magnet and easy to loose/break. The data on it, mine at least is irreplacable. For instance I have the last 3 years of mail on it, important emails, CVs, documents you have written, all your mp3s and pics from your digi cam etc.

I reckon that the value of the data must outweigh the value of the laptop by a factor of 10. If it all went **** up now, id be in a big hole.

How important do you reckon your data is. Another thing to think about is, do you really want people to see your email etc etc becuase until I started thinking about it, there was no outlook protection, all documents were accesable without password etc. Rather scary really. I reckon the value of the data on my home laptop alone must run to about £10K.

How much on yours

ChrisB

Dantz Retrospect has a Proactive Backup option and Veritas now have the Desktop and Laptop agent for Backup Exec. Both (well, I've not used the Veritas one yet...) are designed to automate the backup of laptops when they arrive back into the office.

The Dantz option works well.

messiah

Most of the stuff on my lappy is CAD stuff - I'd be knacked without it, my lappy gets me about £200 a week in nice little earners (which I declare obviously!)

Not backed up for ages which is a bit stupid really...

Hanslow

My work email is stored on the server at work and I just use my laptop / home PC to access it and delete off server if it's rubbish.

All the code I write at home gets emailed back into work for the next day (I only occasionally work from home) and I also take it in on a disk in case the email fails.

So, to answer your question, very little as I have more than one copy of anything important, of which very little is of such importance that I couldn't do without it.

stevencotton

I rsync personal (but not private) data across from my powerbook to a server at home, and any code I write for work from home or remotely is put into CVS from afar as soon as I've edited anything.

Mail you can get around by using IMAP (for work at least, if you only have POP3 you may want to 'leave a copy on the server' if you pop it from your laptop), and most clients can encrypt mail folders. I don't keep any private or sensitive information on my laptop at all.

Steve

Dream Weaver

Dantz auto backup every night at 5pm for me to an external hard drive, and weekly backups to DVD every Friday which are then taken off site and stored elsewhere.

My backup includes all business stuff, personal, music, pics, emails etc so if it goes **** up (which it did 2 years back when my whole PC caught fire/blew up) I lose a max of 4 days of stuff.

Just means I have DVD's full of my data hanging about, but they are secure.

Stueyb

And as if by magic, one of the NC7000a failed this morning .Veritas DLO caught it though and have got a nice little restore job going now. Just proves how dodgy laptops can be.

DJ Dunk

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Jerome

Do they provide the same service in North America?

DJ Dunk

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Hello Jerome,

Yes, we've been doing it in the US for a while longer

http://www.ironmountain.com/services...2&svc3_key=207

Drop me a mail if I can be of any help.

All the best,
Dunk

andym172

I have File Vault (http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/features/filevault/) activated on my Powerbook. Gives piece of mind