Breakdown in communication
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 6th May, 2008
Here’s a great post about how effective communication can be the only way a problem can be resolved. It’s a story about an issue with a server backup which took 11 hours to backup 19Gb of data. The morale of the story is in understanding how the problem wasn’t initially resolved because of lack of [...]
Sceduled Backups
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 27th Apr, 2007
I was listening to a podcast about different ideas for backing up your family’s data the other day and have been thinking about the best way for backing up ours. I’ve recently bought a 0.5T hard disk which is just great for this sort of thing, but the main problem is remembering to do [...]
Backing up - the key to Disaster Recovery
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 12th Mar, 2007
I’ve spoken a number of times on this blog about various options for backing up your data online. But one mustn’t forget the more traditional backup mechanisms like backing up to tape, to optical disk, to hard disk, or even to an FTP site at a remote location. The key aim is to have an [...]
Online Backups
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 13th Feb, 2007
Today I gave an online remote backup service a try. I used a website called IDrive and one of the best points about it is that they have a free service you can try. The free service lets you store up to 2Gb of data. If that isn’t enough, $4.95 a month will give you [...]
Store your personal data somewhere safe
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 6th Feb, 2007
I’ve been trying to come up with a plan as to the best way to make sure we don’t lose any of our digital photos, video and other data that we have on our computers.
When I was a kid, you could take a photo of something, put the negatives in a safe and be [...]
Data Recovery
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 26th Jan, 2007
You have a whole collection of photos on your hard disk, your pride and joy! You have photos of friends, family, holidays, work mates, your whole life. Then one day you come home to download a new batch of photos .. and your computer won’t boot. Your computer is fine, but the hard disk is [...]
Where’s adm_OtherBackupDatabases then ?
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 9th Nov, 2005
Here’s an interesting BizTalk 2004 bug we came across today. Essentially, if you try to keep your BizTalk installation lean and choose not to install certain features, then the packaged backup jobs fail because of a missing table in the database. The actual error message in the event log reads:
Description: SQL Server Scheduled Job ‘Backup [...]
