The Ten Commandments of Data Backup

I Thou shalt have a plan to backup your data.



II Thy plan must include laptops.



III Remote-est locations such as home-eth offices and telecommuters must be included in thy plan-eth.



IV Thou shalt test thy backup plan by deleting-eth a file and retrieving it to its proper place from thy backup.



V Your plan is run by mortals and will therefore devolve into chaos without review, testing, and monitoring.



VI Testing should be done without-eth any warning to your IT people -- just to piss-eth them off.



VII Thou shalt store backups off site, as mayhem will occur.



VIII The more complicated-eth your plan is, the more screwups will occur - think automatic-eth.



iX Include-eth hardware in your backup plan - how wilt thou get replacement hardware fast?



X Rince-eth and repeat-eth.

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