Re:Business 2.0 Doesn't Do Backups, Lost Entire June Edition
by danielha on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @05:02PM
(#18834)
I don't know much about publishing, but I would think each department has a copy of their respective contributions. If I liken their editorial system to version control, why wouldn't, say, the art department have layouts on their local machines?
Re:Business 2.0 Doesn't Do Backups, Lost Entire June Edition
by lupin_sansei on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @08:42PM
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It isn't so bad, they did manage to recover the content:
"But all is well, he said, and the magazine will go to press on schedule next week. The recovery was made much easier, paradoxically, by a bane of modern business: litigation, or at least the fear of it. "The text had all been copy-edited and sent off to the lawyers, so it had been saved as e-mail," Quittner said."
Re:Business 2.0 Doesn't Do Backups, Lost Entire June Edition
by mynameishere on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @09:04PM
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They had a backup server. Misplaced automation is the villain. Makes sense to automate a task that you do 100+ times a day, but backups are generally run once a day, and are recovered maybe once a year.
My backup system involves a script with a bunch of copy commands that I can see flying by in the console as they work.
"But all is well, he said, and the magazine will go to press on schedule next week. The recovery was made much easier, paradoxically, by a bane of modern business: litigation, or at least the fear of it. "The text had all been copy-edited and sent off to the lawyers, so it had been saved as e-mail," Quittner said."
My backup system involves a script with a bunch of copy commands that I can see flying by in the console as they work.
"How to protect company's data"
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/11/01/8392042/index.htm