Luckily I have not yet been through such a disaster but my customers have. I had a customer whose office was nearly wiped out by a hurricane. Another...

Manie Verster (3/28/2009)

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Excuse me if I sound dumb (not quite my subject this) but would you want to keep a backup tape until it bleeds. I would think that when...

Disconnected media would have prevented a bunch of the damage that Steve mentioned. How one goes about that can be debated - endlessly.

Magnetic media, all of it, fades...

I knew a DBA who:

(1) Backed up using a script

(2) zipped up the backup via command line

(3) Used a QIC 40 tape to backup the zip.

Great script. Keep up the good work.

My only difficulty is that xpcommandshell is forbidden at some of my production sites.

At the time I thought that I was coming into enough...

Ah. :sigh: I don't like multiple monitors. Get the geometry wrong and you can have stuff positioned between them. I had a coworker fight that for 15 minutes...

I read something about "home spun" remedies. They suggested putting an armed...

Gift Peddie (3/19/2009)

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I am late to this but Microsoft have improved the System.Security.Cryptography class with the implementation of the new Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman classes which are more secure than the...

What language is it where

1 = 2

is supported?

You've heard the old saw "drive defensively". Well code defensively.