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Educause 2008

By On November 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This years Educause conference took place in Orlando, Florida.

Educause is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and [...]

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Poor Man’s Disaster Recovery

By On October 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Backups are probably the most tedious, time consuming jobs for a system admin and often regarded as a low priority until something goes wrong.

Hell breaks loose and you stumble around for tapes, building catalogs, restoring data, finding unusable tapes or corrupt data and looking for excuses or stories to tell management.

Last month [...]

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A laptop and disaster recovery

By On September 15, 2008 · 1 Comment

Over the last couple of years I have had several severe laptop failures, which have at least put me back a couple of weeks not to mention the hassle of re-installing the operating system and all the applications, which for me is in the 70s.

This time I took some action and looked into [...]

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