PW <pa**********************@removehotmail.comwrote :
>I did not realize that these USB Thumb Drives aren't reliable. Looks
like we should tell our clients to not back up to them any longer!
No, they're fine for backup as hard drives are amazingly reliable despite the fact
that they fail. However I would never, ever use a thumb drive as part of my backup
strategy as you need multiple generations of a backup and some of those generations
must be offsite.
Your hard drive fails and so does your thumb drive. Now what? You need to have, in
my opinion at leat three preferably five devices that you cycle through.
The most recent two or three of the generation must be offsite away from your
computer. Theft, fire, etc are the reasons for that.
Me? I burn a DVD every two or three days. With a zipped, passworded backup of my
files.
>>Also ensure that you power off the device using the icon in the Notification area of
the Task Bar before putting your system on standby, hibernating or removing the
device.
I don't think we have any clients that are saavy enough for that Tony!
Then suggest DVD/CDRs.
>Writes to the thumb drives can be delayed by several seconds at least.
I've seen that behavior myself. The Windows Explorer screen indicating it is
copying files has disappeared but the thumb drive light was still on.
Well, I don't think we're going to market this feature :-). What
would I have our clients do anyway? Just use Installation sheild to
install our application to the U3 Thumb Drive? I guess the choice
would be to the thumb drive or the hard drive, but not both?
Don't forget the Access runtime has to be installed on the computer. It's just the
FE/BE MDB/MDEs that can reside on the thumb drive.
Tony
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