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Dispatch centres' differing systems raise concerns

19 May 2012, 8:21 am

Langford Fire will spend $100,000 to upgrade its dispatch centre, according to documents released Friday, but it will still use different technology than the emergency communications centre in Saanich, making it more difficult for the two to provide backup for each other in an emergency.

Genie Timeline Backup Free Does the Job and Looks Metro Doing It

17 May 2012, 3:18 pm

Simple but effective, Genie Timeline Backup 2012 Free brings effective, revisioned file backup and a Windows Metro interface to the table.

Backupify Emerges As Leading Provider Of Cloud-based Backup Services For Educational Institutions

16 May 2012, 7:46 am

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Backupify , the leading provider of online backup services for cloud application data, today announced the rising number of educational institutions choosing ...

Backup Documents: The Best and Safest Solution

Importance of backup documents can be easily understood because computers and all types of disks are electronic devices susceptible to failures. Most common reason do data lost is the failure of a storage device (computer disk, external disk or USB pen). Once your data gets corrupted, you have no other option then restoring it from the backup taken before the failure. Ignoring the importance of backup system may cause permanent loss of important data. In case you do not have the backup of data, you will have to start from the scratch creating affected files. You could easily go out and buy a thumb drive or external hard drive and backup your data on to that drive. But you must know that a single (external or internal) drives are extremely prone to failures.

The best and safest solution to backup your documents is to store them periodically in a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. A NAS is a device that has multiple drives and stores data in a redundant way (RAID system). The same data is written more than once in different disks. Nevertheless, for the user all disks appear may appear as a single (or more) disks. The NAS device can be placed in your home network accessed easily by browser via wired or wireless connections. There are also some NAS that allow a user to connect it directly to a PC. However, a network connection will allow to perform backups from any PC in your home network.

The best NAS will have a 1Gbps network card (and/or a USB2.0 connection), support 2 or for disks and allow the creation of RAID5 and RAID6 systems (the best ways to have a redundant array of disks with high performance). Most NAS devices have already embedded multimedia servers that will allow to stream your music/movies directly to your game console, TV, Smart phone phone or wireless MP3 device.

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