Re: Let it slide
Working 4 days out of 6 is 2/3rds or just under 67%. Sounds like an improvement to me.
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My contribution to this was to point out that the DR/BC plans were all stored on a network share which would probably be unavailable if needed. Solution was that the BC team were told to periodically replicate onto their laptops. No idea if they really did this as I was not involved in the testing.
One of the last remaining clerical admins had the job or printing out 6 sets of the most vital BC information quarterly and distributing to the team tasked with BC management. Pretty sure that nobody took on that task when she retired. Left that job many years ago, so not my problem.
I had a similar experience when doing some cabling in a server room. Crouched down behind a rack with several floor tiles lifted and was out of sight of the sensor. After a fairly short delay, all the room lights go out and I am stuck with trying to get to a point to trigger the sensor without falling down any of the holes from the lifted tiles.
After I complained about that, an override switch was added to the lights.
I saw a couple of these before Christmas when I was looking for some camera gear. One seller claiming to be from Holland had what I was looking for much cheaper than the going rate with the 'used to display in shop' description. It had the 'contact us before ordering' line. Seemed too good to be true but I thought that I would be covered by the Amazon A-Z guarantee. I added to my basket and tried to checkout. However, it would not accept any payment methods. Now pretty sure that it was not kosher, I sent an email to the seller through the Amazon system. Not surprisingly there was no reply.
The quantity available kept decreasing; so they had either managed to con some people or it was another part of the trick to create a level of urgency. My suspicions were confirmed when an almost identical listing appeared as soon as this one disappeared. This time claiming to be from somewhere in East Europe.
Lucky escape.
Crashplan have this announcement on their support site.........
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On January 4, 2016, we will discontinue our optional, paid Restore-to-Door service for CrashPlan Home subscribers. It has been our pleasure to offer this service for several years, but due to declining interest, we are choosing to focus these resources on improving our customer support responsiveness.
There are other ways to quickly retrieve large amounts of data using CrashPlan beyond this service. We recommend configuring a local CrashPlan backup, either to another computer or to an external hard drive, in addition to your backup to CrashPlan Central.
This yields multiple benefits:
Fast backup to the local destination so you're protected while your offsite backup is completing
Fast restore from a local destination in situations where a full restore is required (e.g. laptop theft, hard drive failure)
Meanwhile, your CrashPlan Central backup ensure offsite backup security in the event of a local disaster (e.g. fire, flood, home theft)
This way, if your main computer fails, the local backup data can provide a timely restore for large amounts of data.
Thank you,
The Code42 CrashPlan Team
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So do not bank on getting your data back on HD.
Looking at their website the offering did look interesting, but I could not fine the prices for their non-free home service anywhere.