Law Technology

Told ?Ya So - When Will People Listen About Backup?

By Ross

Techcrunch reporting on the overnight demise of JournalSpace.com, a blogging provider (read it at http://tinyurl.com/6ulyqs). Apparently the company IT guy was relying solely on the RAID capabilities of their servers for backup. The company has been totally wiped out and is selling its assets. They lost everything!

When will people HERE listen? I’ve spent 12 years here ranting about backup and yet we still see people ignoring the basic advice. I’ve laid it out most recently in my SmallLaw column on Technolawyer - an update of the article on my blog for ages. It’s here: http://tinyurl.com/9wwl2g - Technolawyer calls it “the best article ever written about backup.” While THAT may be overstatement, you WILL be protected as best as you can be if you follow my guidelines.

Read it and protect yourself, your practice, your livelihood. Fail to do it and heed its advice and do so at your own abject peril.

I’m neither kidding around nor overstating the issue.

P.S. Techno.Pal Nerino Petro wrote about this one today on his CompuJurist blog here. We’ve both been intensely crusading about legal data backup education. People still won’t listen, I  suspect. But the guys from the now defunct JournalSpace.com won’t ever make the same mistake. Why do we tend to need to learn our practice management lessons so painfully?

Full post as published by Ross Ipsa Loquitur on January 03, 2009 (boomark / email).