Day: 23 October 2009
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Backups? We don’t need no stinking backups!
Here are 2 stories ( just in this week ) of tragic data loss or nearly … My wife’s aunt phoned last night and indicated her daughter’s MacBook had been stolen while at a client. Simple: call the insurance, claim for a new laptop and restore your data. Not so fast. No backups … Considering…
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Local insurance company loses client data
So it’s not just the Americans who are poor at client data security – the South Africans have got into the act as well. Local insurance firm Zurich SA said it had lost a tape containing client information. Apparently the backup tape was lost during a routing tape transfer to a data storage centre in…