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Hello Lynn,

You are living my nightmare. I have nothing helpful to say now that the
horses are out of the barn, but this seems like a good opportunity to
discuss backup practices.

A harrowing experience a couple of years ago involving our tech people and
the server (they said it was backing up daily and I found out it had not
made a useable backup for a year!) forced me to make redundant backups. I
bought another hard drive for my workstation and now I do a daily backup to
the server and my extra hard drive. Every couple of weeks I take a copy of
a backup home and burn it on a CD. I hope that is sufficient, but I'm eager
to hear what others are doing.

Regards,
Robert


Robert Hiebert
Librarian, Golden Secondary School, BC, Canada
www.gsslibrary.net
Fax: 250 344 7116
library@gsslibrary.net



                      Lynn Autry
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                      02/28/03 04:32 PM
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                      Lynn Autry






Has anyone ever lost their entire library data?  Today our server died and
according to the district technology people, the backup tape was corrupt.
It appears not only  that we have lost the entire Follett library program
and data but our school's email and other programs on the server as well.
This wasn't Friday the 13th was it?  Anyway, tomorrow I will know exactly
how bad everything is.  I am being told though that it's BAD! My question
is, has anyone ever experienced this before and if so, what plan of action
do you suggest.  There is no other backup.  There are no shelf list cards.
Everything was on the server.  Our immediate plan is to limit checkout (we
don't even know what books we have checked out now) and to use check-out
cards.  Fortunately there are some of those still around. It is going to be
a mess.  Any suggestions?

Lynn Autry
Central Hardin High School
Cecilia, Kentucky 42724
270.737.6800

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