What a way to return

[Tom Zarrilli <tzar@NETIME.COM>]

  This week I started my third year as Media Specialist at a small
private school in Atlanta.   After three years I though I was in for
no surprises.  I spent two weeks coming in part time and leisurely
getting ready for the new year.  I cleaned up tossed out a lot of old
clutter and though the new year would be no problem.  Then it happened
the hard drive on our server went belly up.  My 5,000 some marc
records were no longer on line.  The technologist fixed it and checked
the back up.  Several back ups were bad (we were doing then
quarterly), the most recent one was from November of '95.  Nearly 500
records I had created from last year were lost.

        With out whinning about the work ahead for me I'd like to say:
1. Do you know if your back ups are really good, I have since been
told that older tape drives are not reliable(my case proves this.)
2.  If there is a question of reliability double your backup rotation.
3. Backup more often than we did.
4.  The price of recovering data off a dead hard drive is beyond the
reach of most budgets.
5.Any suggestions for me to regain the records without weeks of work?

Tom Zarrilli


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