Okay, I'm having WAY too much fun with technology.
Today I decided to do something unique and perhaps a little
over-protective....I saved my entire library collection (about 20K
titles) on my jump drive / flash drive (it's a 258MB flash drive and
I used about 15MB of space). I'm hoping that things will never get to
the point where I will need to rely on this to recover the collection,
but even with our servers backing up what we have, there are times when
I've had the technology report to me (usually several weeks later) that,
"You know...we haven't been able to get a 'clean back-up' of the
library's collection because of the amount of stuff on the servers. We
should be able to get it backed-up once everyone cleans out their email
space!"
This means that (for oh, I don't know...two or three weeks) what I
thought was being saved / backed-up for any future problems had not
been! Any changes, updates or whatever I've done to the collection
wasn't being saved!
For those of you in smaller libraries, you may want to invest in a jump
drive / flash drive to back-up things in your library, especially if
you're not the one in charge of the server! I am not in charge of the
server here and I don't know what things are being backed-up each night;
however, with the track record that I've seen with my technology
department / servers, I'm afraid that keeping an accurate account of
what our collection contains (for future problems--fire, tornado, theft)
may be better protected on this type of instrument than on disks or
servers.
Just an idea.
~Shonda Brisco
Trinity Valley MS / US Librarian
Fort Worth, TX
briscos@trinityvalleyschool.org
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