Backups
April 6th, 2007I have been thinking about the Backups and how to make them easier for Reps. I had a two Reps email me with the suggestion to automatically do a Backup each time a Rep exited MBA. This would work for making sure Backups got done. The problem is that many have the problem of a dead drive, so the Backup file would also die with the drive.
My idea for now is to add the ability to email your Backup. Yahoo and Google both offer free email with very large capacity for storage. If it works out maybe give the Rep the option of creating and emailing a Backup each time they exit (probably on good for those on high speed internet). The cool thing about this is the backup file is off your PC (in fact right out of your house). In addition to dead hard drives you would be protected from theft, fire, natural disasters and more simply because your backup is off site.
Now I just have to find the time to write the Code.
Avon, Backups
April 13th, 2007 at 7:19 am
This sounds like an interesting idea. Unfortunately, I still have dialup internet so this would take a while for me to do. I do try to back up my data, but know that I should do it much more often than I do.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:48 am
Doris,
Glad to see you try. The USB drive option is a good one. Small drives are inexpensive and very fast to write data to. When you think how much work it would be to replace all your data, the time invested in backups is well worth it. Even if a Rep just backups up after each campaign then all that is at risk is current data. Like I said in blog, it is not “if” it is “when”.