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Remote backup – the health insurers of the tech industry Backup your files. You’ve been hearing it for years and you’ve finally taken notice. Either the nagging from friends or colleagues got too much, or you suffered what happened to most serious backer uppers: a catastrophic loss of data. For this writer it was a fried hard drive taking with it irreplaceable family photos. That and the beginning of a project that has ended up spanning several years. Losing that forever would be unthinkable. So my data is backed up, as is that of many others who learned this lesson the hard way. I do it locally on the same machine, externally on a backup drive and remotely, using one of the many available remote backup companies that have sprung up over the past decade or so. The company I use is relatively fairly priced and they offer a decent amount of backup space. I’m satisfied for now, but every time the renewal comes around I wonder to myself: “should I change provider?” I do with almost every other aspect of my life. Insurance of various types, credit cards, bank account deals, hardware purchases – who ever is offering the best package, at the best price, at the right time gets my custom. The Problem However, with remote backup there’s a problem with this mantra. None of them – as far as I know, and if any do, please tell me – allow you to backup your data between companies. What I mean is, if I have X Gigabytes of data backed up with one firm but wish to change to a second, I cannot transfer that already backed up data. Now this might not be the biggest of problems for those in high speed upload areas, but it’s still relevant. If you back up even ‘just’ 30GB of data to one company and want to move come renewal time, you know that you are going to spend a few days, a few weeks or in my case – I live in a remote area with an awful upload rate – several months, re-uploading everything that you’ve already backed up. This leaves you with a period of time where your data is not safe. On top of this, what if you have more? 50GB, 100GB, 200GB, the problem only worstens. In this way remote backup firms are quite like health insurance companies. Once you’ve got yourself in bed with one, you better stick with them or there will be a period where you’re not protected – in the case of moratorium policies anyhow. Of course if you go with a standard health policy where no pre-existing conditions of covered, this would be the equivalent of never being able to back up the same data again. Remote back up firms arn’t that bad, but I feel there is a problem here. Pages: 1 2 Pages: 1 2
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Cúltaca cianda - an árachóirí sláinte an tionscal ardteicneolaíochta Cúltaca do chuid comhad. Tá tú ag éisteacht sé ar feadh na mblianta agus atá tú a dhéanamh ar deireadh fógra. Ceachtar fuair an nagging ó chairde nó comhghleacaithe i bhfad ró, nó d'fhulaing tú cad a tharla an chuid is mó tromchúiseach uachtair backer: caillteanas tubaisteach na sonraí. Ar an scríbhneoir ba a thiomáint friochta deacair glacadh leis grianghraif teaghlach irreplaceable. Go agus tús le tionscadal go bhfuil dar críoch suas a chuimsíonn roinnt blianta. Chailliúint go mbeadh go deo unthinkable. Mar sin, tá mo sonraí cúltaca, is é sin go leor eile a d'fhoghlaim an gceacht seo ar an mbealach crua. Is féidir liom é go háitiúil ar an meaisín céanna, go seachtrach ar a thiomáint cúltaca agus go cianda, ag baint úsáide as ceann de na cuideachtaí a lán cúltaca atá ar fáil iargúlta go sprung suas le deich mbliana anuas nó mar sin. Tá an chuideachta úsáid mé réasúnta phraghas cothrom agus a chuireann siad le méid réasúnta de spás cúltaca. Tá mé sásta le haghaidh anois, ach gach uair a thagann leis an athnuachan ar fud Wonder mé liom féin: "ba chóir dom a athrú soláthraí?" A dhéanfaidh mé le beagnach gach gné eile de mo shaol. Faigheann a bhí riamh ag tairiscint an bpacáiste is fearr, ag an bpraghas is fearr, ag an am ceart mo saincheaptha - Árachas de chineálacha éagsúla, cártaí creidmheasa, Déileálann an cuntas bainc, ceannacháin crua-earraí. An Fhadhb Mar sin féin, le cúltaca iargúlta tá fadhb ann leis an mantra. Aon cheann acu - chomh fada agus a fhios agam, agus má dhéanann aon, le do thoil inis dom - ligfidh tú chun cúltaca do chuid sonraí idir cuideachtaí. Cad a chiallaíonn go bhfuil, má tá mé ghigibheart X le sonraí cúltaca le ceann gnólacht ach ar mian leo a athrú go dtí an dara, ní féidir liom a aistriú go cheana tacaíocht suas sonraí. Anois, ní fhéadfadh a bheith seo is mó de na fadhbanna dóibh siúd i limistéir ardluais upload, ach tá sé fós ábhartha. Má tá tú ar ais go dtí fiú ag iarraidh 'ach' 30GB na sonraí a cuideachta amháin agus a bhogadh am athnuachana teacht, tá a fhios agat go bhfuil tú ag dul a chaitheamh ar feadh cúpla lá, cúpla seachtain nó i mo chás - mé i mo chónaí i gceantar iargúlta le uafásach uaslódáil ráta - roinnt míonna, ath-uaslódáil gach rud go atá agat cheana féin le tacaíocht suas. Fágann sé seo tú le tréimhse ama nuair nach bhfuil do shonraí sábháilte. Ar a bharr sin, cad má tá tú níos mó? 50GB, 100GB, 200GB, worstens an fhadhb amháin. Ar an mbealach seo tá gnólachtaí cúltaca iargúlta go leor cosúil le cuideachtaí árachais sláinte. Nuair atá tú a fuair tú féin i leaba le ceann amháin, bata tú níos fearr leo nó a bheidh ann ar feadh tréimhse nuair nach bhfuil tú ag chosaint - i gcás na polasaithe moratóir anyhow. Ar ndóigh, má théann tú le polasaí sláinte caighdeánach i gcás aon choinníollacha a bhí ann cheana de clúdaithe, go mbeadh sé seo a bheith comhionann le riamh a bheith in ann tacú leis na sonraí céanna arís. Ar ais go cianda suas gnólachtaí arn't go dona, ach is dóigh liom go bhfuil fadhb anseo. Leathanaigh: 1 2 Leathanaigh: 1 2