Re: [OHGEN] backing up information from Sandy
by Robert M. Sizelove, Sr.
David & Sandy I agree with your thoughts on this subject. I have for
the last five years have taken care of the Ohio Cemetery Photo Project,
I'm not a county coordinator, just a lowly archive project manager that
loves to write code, I take care of huge volumes of text and even larger
volumes of images and a daily basis for all 88 counties of Ohio. I use a
free version of a very good antivirus program, updating it every moring.
I use a Maxtor external hardrive to save each page of cemetery data,
plus save a copy of each image, within a heirarchy starting with
counties, townships and then cemetery names. It's the only way I can
keep track of text and images, making sure they're assigned to the
correct location, since there are many like name cemeteries, even within
a single county. I use Macromedia Homesite software to write and test
the pages. Once I have them to my satisfaction, I first save them to my
exterior hardrive, then upload a copy to the server. Before I upload a
new version of any file, I rename the original file on the server,
adding the letters "old" and then upload a new version to replace the
original file name. So, I always have the new page of html data and the
last working version saved to the server and I can always go back to
the last version of any additions I make. This has proved useful at
times when I later found issues and needed to go back to the previously
used version of a page. So not only do I have the latest copy on my
external hardrive matching data on the server, but also have the last
version of everything on both the server and my external hardrive. By
the way, I do save things to my hardrive, but always have a copy of it
elsewhere, I put nothing on a computer hardrive that I can't afford to
lose, because lose it you will. Never trust a hardrive as sole keeper of
precious data. It's good to see so much correspondence on so many
interesting subjects. Best regards. Robert Sizelove
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/tombpics/
> If one has a reasonable anti virus app, keeps their virus definitions
up to
> date, keeps their Microsoft OS up to date and uses some judgment as to
what
> files are opened (executed) on their machines, then the prospect of a
virus
> becomes more remote, albeit not impossible.
>
> As to: >>> If you have a static site you may not have a need to make as
> many
> > backups, but if you are making changes and additions it might be
good to
> > do one.<<
>
> Static site or not - I would think that everyone should work towards
having
> a duplicate of their web site on their local PC. As long as the files on
> the local PC are updated first, and then uploaded to the server, one will
> always have both in synch.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandra Quinn" <ohgen(a)alltel.net>
> To: <OHGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [OHGEN] backing up information from Sandy
>
>
> > It may seem remote, but computer viruses can destroy your hard drive
as in
> > my case this past weekend. If your files aren't backed up on a
floppy or
> > zip drive, then you are out of luck and starting over.
> > I currently have four computers with backups on all of them, but
they are
> > all different as I may make a change while on one computer that is not
> > recorded on the other.
> > I back everything up to CD and DVD's also when I make changes. So I
have
> > a small library showing the before and after's over time for each
county
> > site and OHGenWeb.
> > If you have a static site you may not have a need to make as many
backups,
> > but if you are making changes and additions it might be good to do one.
> >
> > Sandy
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