Re: Email clients
- From: John M Ward <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:20:55 GMT
In article <4d9d5f5e86miyuki@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chika <miyuki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508201328370.21826@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Liam
> Gretton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > It almost sent the company right back in to the electronic stone
> > > age, (as no email or address books were stored on any of the
> > > clients, it was all on the Exchange server) and deservedly so for
> > > relying on Microsoft.
> > That's not a bad setup at all, only one central server to keep
> > backed up instead of a myriad of clients. That someone wasn't doing
> > his or her job properly and testing the backups is nothing to do
> > with Microsoft.
> Totally agree with that. I'll admit that Microsoft don't provide the
> best protection against such things as system borks like that but
> it's better than nothing at all, and testing surely is part of a good
> disaster recovery plan, regardless of system, OS and applications.
Yup: this is what the DTI computer centre at Eastcote did on a regular
basis, and they did it very well.
Even so, looking back at the original tale of woe that druck related, it
is hard to blame the individuals involved for the problems, as they did
all that one would logically expect them to have to do, and the failure
to restore was something that most folk would not understand, especially
without suitable warning/error messages..
Now, I have a (deserved!) reputation for being fanatical about backups,
and I do tend to check an awful lot of what gets backed-up, restored, or
whatever; and I never "burn my boats/bridges" so can always go back one
or more steps. Consequently I have lost nothing of importance since
1992, including machine configurations.
However I have virtually zero confidence in the integrity of the
"Wintel" machine here, despite Acronis TrueImage backing-up, though it
looks as though I shall be depending on this shortly as I strongly
suspect that some kind of malware has got into the system -- probably
when one of my visitors was let loose on that machine, which does
happen. Perhaps I should stop allowing this...
I am now thinking of an OS re-install (which will hopefully eradicate
the malware) possibly followed by a restore of the last Acronis backup,
which was taken a few weeks before the troubles started.
Of course, this is a new issue to me, as my "proper" computers all have
their OSes where they should be -- in a read-only medium. One never
writes to an OS, after all...
--
John M Ward : RISC OS computing since 1987, now Iyonix-powered!
Acorn/RISC OS web page: www.john-ward.org.uk/personal/john/computers
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