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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: marc al on November 24, 2006, 02:38:41 pm

Title: An important lesson
Post by: marc al on November 24, 2006, 02:38:41 pm
   DO NOT LET YOUR BACK UP FOR GEORGE LAPSE

    You've guessed it, had a total hard disc failure on my work pc, didn't have george backed up - been meaning to get round to renewing!

    I have lost everything - luckily I have not thrown away all my work sheets for the past 3 weeks or so, I can manage to put my work back together, but I cannot retake all the photos of my kids and dogs that are on the disc and not all backed up.

   I am going to send the disc away for a specialist company to try and retrieve my photo's - not bloody cheap though!!

   Hope it serves as a reminder to you all!!

  Marc
Title: Re: An important lesson
Post by: windows_chepstow on November 24, 2006, 02:45:33 pm
Marc Al,

I covered this recently in a post.  See here:

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=27004.0

You don't need George to backup your customer data base; you can do it for free too in the link provided in the above thread.

I know no-one likes a smart-arse, but I can't help myself so here goes... I told you so! ;)

(Sorry)
Title: Re: An important lesson
Post by: marc al on November 24, 2006, 03:38:32 pm
  Tosh

     Wish I had read that post!

   Marc
Title: Re: An important lesson
Post by: craig jwc on November 24, 2006, 04:29:31 pm
I've not long started using George and back up every night to a memory stick
+ a 2nd hard drive in the pc.
If doing this you don't really need to pay George to back it up do you?

Craig
Title: Re: An important lesson
Post by: cybersye on November 24, 2006, 04:37:28 pm
Quote from: craig jwc on November 24, 2006, 04:29:31 pm
I've not long started using George and back up every night to a memory stick
+ a 2nd hard drive in the pc.
If doing this you don't really need to pay George to back it up do you?

Craig
Sure i guess I could do that too if I could be bothered,
but £12 a year for peace of mind aint bad. Had to retrieve my back up a couple of times in the last few weeks, Pauls even answered e mails on a Sunday morning and had me up and running again. Thats what I call service!
Title: Re: An important lesson
Post by: Easyclean Windows on November 24, 2006, 04:45:50 pm
i allways back it upto a 1gb sdcc card restores ok everytime
Title: Re: An important lesson
Post by: [GQC] Tim on November 24, 2006, 06:07:17 pm
2 Partitions doesn't make 2 Hard drives (for the less PC skilled people)

I have 2 hard drives, george installed on the first one, make my backups to the second one, and I have Internet backup by George Systems, thanks for the link though Tosh! Will have a go at it!

What you can also do, is get a Gmail account (2Gb of storage) and every time send yourself an email with the corresponding backup file where you've saved them on your PC

Or...get a Raid5 setup lol