backup

FIRE DRILL! How secure are your files?

May 21, 2008

Imagine any of the following scenarios:

You returned to your office this morning to find it had burned to the ground overnight. You cannot salvage anything but a few crispy bits of your pencil sharpener.
Someone swiped your laptop on the train this morning while you were on your way to work. Nobody seems to have seen [...]

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Back up your computer only when you are not using it

April 3, 2008

A fair amount of the people I talk to about backup say they forget to do it, or they can’t figure out–or never get around to setting up–the built-in backup options. If that sounds like you, check out IdleBackup, a utility for backing up your computer when it is sitting idle.
I still recommend making a [...]

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Image hard drives for e-discovery or backup with PING

October 27, 2007

PING (Partimage is Not Ghost) is a Linux-based LiveCD for backing up your system by making an image of the hard drive (or smaller partitions, if you have them). In other words, you boot a simplified version of Linux (it doesn’t matter what operating system you normally use on the computer–just pop the CD in [...]

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E-discovery chain of custody

October 27, 2007

E-discovery has existed since computers have existed, but it has only become a hot (if dry) topic in recent years. For the solosmall practitioner, e-discovery can be an extra-large headache, since capturing and preserving electronic data in compliance with the rules and case law can be confusing, time-consuming, and, most importantly, expensive.
However, Law.com’s Legal Technology [...]

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A valuable reminder—keep your files secure

July 3, 2007

My office was burglarized over the weekend, a valuable reminder of the need to backup and secure your files, both paper and digital.
All the jerks stole was a few rolls of stamps and my video camera. Expensive for me, to be sure, but nothing particularly disturbing. They didn’t touch my external hard drive that I [...]

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Laptop with personal data of all 64,000 Ohio State employees stolen

June 16, 2007

This is why you need to encrypt your client files.
If the data on that hard drive was encrypted, rather than sitting out there for anyone to see, the headline might have been entirely different. All the thief would be able to see would be a file, partition, or drive full of gobbledygook (that’s a technical [...]

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Make backup easier by centralizing your data

March 29, 2007

Everyone needs backup. Hard drives fail. Period. So backup your data.
The problem is that your data is hiding in a bunch of different places on your hard drive. One of the best ways to make backup easier is to centralize it. Pick a folder where you want to store all the data you want to [...]

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Lessons learned the hard way: BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP (and make sure your backup system works!)

February 8, 2007

Today I spent two hours drafting a complaint. Tonight, I was getting the complaint ready to go, so I copied my summons form into the complaint document and saved the file without thinking about it. As my finger clicked the mouse button, I realized I had selected “Save,” not “Save as.” Oh shit.
Yes, that’s two [...]

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