Burning Down the House: What’s your backup strategy?

Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois

So you’re sitting in your small town Minnesota home blasting out Talking Heads’ tunes… drinkin’ a little - suddenly you’re engulfed with smoke… Your house is burning… run!

Christopher Guy, 53, who was “obviously intoxicated” and upset about the fire, Winona Police Sgt. Gary Hoeppner said. He said Guy was warned to calm down and stand back so the firefighters could do their jobs.
Guy complied “for a while” but ran inside when no one was watching him and retrieved a computer, Hoeppner said.

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One Response to “Burning Down the House: What’s your backup strategy?”

  1. David Boyd, on July 22nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm Said:

    So what would you save? It has to be the computer, right?

    I mean, unless you have an offsite backup somewhere. In which case you could save the dog, or any small children. (Don’t call child protection, I’m joking).

    A backup isn’t really a backup unless it’s offsite. That’s why online backup services such as Angel Backup - http://www.angelbackup.com - are a fantastic idea for keeping data protected in the event of a disaster.

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