Maybe Next Year!

Go Chargers!

In preparation for watching the game you may want to visit one of many football oriented Web sites. My favorite is NFL.com . This Link will take you to the highlights of our victory over the Colts. For a very comprehensive listing of football related links is the Football Links directory Blog. No work all play on Sunday!

Microsoft VISTA For San Diego Businesses

One of the most import things for a business is its' information, customer, product, financial, etc... Vista (Ultimate and Business Edition) has the feature to create and save a complete disk image so you can use in case of a disk of other major failure.

It is an easy to use feature! The only hardware requirement is another hard disk (in your PC, external drive are OK but LESS reliable, or a networked drive is best) or enough DVD's to complete the backup.

The DVD alternative is not practicable! Do the math, if you have 100 gigabytes of data and each DVD holds 4.3 gig, it would take approximately 24 DVD's to do a backup. With the hard disk alternative it is fast and easy (a rarity in today's world!)

I just installed a RAID card in my prime PC. It is an I/O FLEX PSA150 (Dual channel SATA). (I will blog my opionion on the product in 2-4 weeks as it is a lower cost product versus other brands).

I have a Western Digital drive (My boot drive) that was reporting “drive errors” and I needed to make sure that I could keep this PC functioning with little hassle. I had already received an RMA from WDC for the failing drive and was awaiting the replacement. Much to my surprised a Vista window popped up saying that a disk drive failure was imminent and asked if I wanted to start a backup! You BET! I did the backup, and removed the failing drive from the mirrored set.
I felt that I was well prepared and had avoided a major hassle because I had the raid drives installed and a current backup.

If you would like a review of your backup procedures please contact me for a no obligation consultation (San Diego County businesses only).

A computer without your data is worthless!