Choosing a Backup Storage Device
It used to be that you would backup everything on your computer by using floppy disks.Today, when one sound or graphics file can easily be larger than the capacity of a disk, it would be impractical to back up even you documents using floppies, let alone your applications. Luckily there are better options including Zip disks, CD writers, tape drives, external hard drives and even online backup services.You can also compress all of your backed up files so that they will take up less space.Follow the following pointers and you will be able to find the media that is best suited to your needs.
1) Determine the approximate quantity and file sizes you will be backing up.
2) Figure out the quantity and file sizes of any documents or other applications you want to archive permanantly to a backup device or removable media.
3) Plan for that amount of information to grow in the future.
4) You should figure out your budget for a backup storage device and removable media to use with it.
5) Consider if you plan to archive photographs or scanned files, need portability of the media or the drive itself, wish to record music for playback on some other equipment, or need ease of use.Weigh these factors along with your need to back up the files.
6) Work out the cost per MB of media for each drive you are considering.zip drives themselves are cheap however the disks are not.
Sun’s ZFS now has built-in deduplication
Posted by admin in IT Blog, SUN Solaris on November 2nd, 2009
A few years ago, Deduplication was the industries biggest buzz word. Well that hype actually pan-out and is a vital way to save disk space. In a nutshell, Deduplication is the process of eliminating duplicate copies of data.
Now instead of having an appliance dedup the data, Sun’s Zettabyte File System (ZFS) will do it for [...]
The New Snow Leopard Update Blocks Intel Atom
Do you have a hacked Mac netbook? Well the new Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2 will not work on the Intel Atom processor.
According to Stellarola, with the current developer build of 10.6.2, Apple appears to have changed around a lot of CPU related information. He suggests that if you are a Hackintosh user with an [...]
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Protecting your PC with SkyRecon’s StormShield
Learn how to protect your PC using SkyRecon’s StormShield. There are two parts to the product: The server components (including the relational database and server) and the various agents that run on each endpoint. Among other things, the agent contains a host-based firewall and policy engine that can be customized to control applications and particular [...]
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Windows XP Freezes
There are many reasons why Windows XP freezes.
One of the reasons may be that the registry is polluted with errors, or it is likely that your computer is bogged down by temporary Internet files. Having too many Internet files left to build up on your hard drive often cause the computer to freeze or crash.
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