Setting up a Tape Backup Strategy for your Business

Written by Linus Chang


Continued from page 1

Well, atrepparttar end of each working day, putrepparttar 107256 tape intorepparttar 107257 drive. And as obvious as this sounds,repparttar 107258 correct tape should be placed inrepparttar 107259 drive. For example, placingrepparttar 107260 "Week 2" tape instead ofrepparttar 107261 "Week 3" tape inrepparttar 107262 tape drive will reducerepparttar 107263 effectiveness of your tape rotation strategy! Your tape backup software should take care ofrepparttar 107264 rest.

In addition, you should monitorrepparttar 107265 results of each backup to check for errors. For example, if a tape wears out and data cannot be verified, you need to take action and replace that tape. If some problem prevented a backup from completing, you need to know about it so that you can re-runrepparttar 107266 backuprepparttar 107267 next morning.

Be sure to also follow your manufacturer's guidelines for drive cleaning and maintenance.

Final notes

As strange as this seems, you should be atrepparttar 107268 mercy of your tape backup software. Andrepparttar 107269 more control it exerts over you,repparttar 107270 better! Let me explain...

NTBackup assumes that you insertrepparttar 107271 correct tape and it doesn't inform you of any errors. You are responsible for selectingrepparttar 107272 tape according to your tape rotation scheme, andrepparttar 107273 onus is on you to read result logs and discover if any errors occurred.

This means thatrepparttar 107274 file backup process is tedious and prone to human error. A complete solution for tape backup should take charge of your backup strategy for you.

A tape backup program should email tape rotation instructions andrepparttar 107275 results of backups to you or your secretary, making your task far simpler and minimizingrepparttar 107276 chance of human error. Selectrepparttar 107277 right tape backup software and you're already most ofrepparttar 107278 way to implementing a complete tape backup strategy for your business.

Linus Chang is a backup expert and the lead developer of BackupAssist - tape backup software that is simple and affordable, and perfect for small and medium businesses. Protect your Windows servers, including SQL Server and Exchange Server, to tape, REV drive, hard drive, NAS and more, at a fraction of the cost of other backup programs.


Snapshot image cleaning

Written by Maricon Williams


Continued from page 1

To correctrepparttar flaws, you must go torepparttar 107255 history palette. If it you did not find it in your desktop, you can find it normally onrepparttar 107256 right in Photoshop by default. Go to window > Show history. Once you have located your history palette, selectrepparttar 107257 bold arrow-button on its right side. Click and hold it until a menu appears then go to New Snapshot. When you release your mouse, another dialog box will appear. You must enter in itrepparttar 107258 name “unsharp eyes”, then click OK.

If you have more than one snapshot in a working file, do not forget to label your snapshots to be able to have a better workflow management when it comes to organization of your images. It is nice to do it that way for easy and fast selection and for an efficient scheme.

Additional Information about the article can be found at http://www.fullcolorprintingcompany.com


    <Back to Page 1
 
ImproveHomeLife.com © 2005
Terms of Use