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SmallLaw: The Ultimate Backup Regimen for Law Firms

By Ross Kodner

I am a veteran of many a late night restoring data from the failed systems of my clients over the years. Since 1985 when I started consulting with law practices full time, I've made backup system/process recommendations to thousands of law practices of all sizes. I've had to sit and restore systems from backup media ? often pulling all-nighters at client offices to nurse their systems back from the brink. I've seen it all. From cassette tapes in the wild, wooly frontier days of the early 80's to floppies to the earliest backup tapes, through the Pre-Dark Ages (called the Colorado Memory Systems era) to the true Dark Ages (the "Travan Nightmare"), to Bernoulli disks, to Zip drives and their "Click of Death", to Magneto-Optical drives, to DAT, DLT, LTO and VXA tape, to tape libraries, to external hard drives, to modern D2D SATA systems, through the complete evolution of online options...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).