Our preparation goals must be to minimize the:
1. Preparation cost
2. Preparation time.
3. Time during a disaster without a machine.
4. Recovery Cost.
5. Recovery Time.
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Disaster Seminar 7 — Disaster Preparation Goals
May 25, 2020Disaster Seminar 6 — Have prompt access to more than one computer
May 18, 2020The second computer should also:
1. Be a notebook or desktop.
2. Have the same capabilities as your primary machine.
3. Be easy to maintain in a functionally current status.
Ideally, the second machine should be at a remote location.
For example, it can be:
1. A notebook in your car or storage locker
2. A friend’s machine.
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Disaster Seminar 5 — Pick the best machine for disaster survival
May 11, 2020It must function on its own without internet access.
It must have:
1. A Hard drive to contain your data and applications.
2. A Printer Port.
3. A DVD reader / writer.
4. A USB Port.
Desktop or Notebook Computers are good choices.
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Disaster Seminar 4 — When Your Machine Breaks
May 4, 2020When Your Machine Breaks, you will lose access to:
1. Your Data.
2. Your Applications and Programs,
3. Access to the Internet.
All Machines break, even the cloud based machines that
provide you with your computing capabilities.
How does one prepare for a machine failure?`
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Disaster Seminar 3 — Computer Resource Failure Modes
April 27, 2020Loss of Your Computer Resources results from:
1. Personal computer failure.
2. Remote computer service,
3. Power failure.
4. Internet failure.
5. Software failure.
6. Security failure.
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Disaster Seminar 2 — The Most Ignored Serious Disaster
April 20, 2020The Loss of Your Computer Resources
Why is this a major disaster?
Minimally. You will lose the ability to:
1. Manage your finances
2. Pay your bills.
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Disaster Seminar 1 — Typical Natural Disasters
April 13, 2020Every Location Has A Potential Disaster:
1. Tornado
2. Hurricane
3. Earthquake
4. Mud Slide
5. Flood
6. Tsunami
7. Brush Fires.
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Disaster Seminar 22 — Concluding Remarks
July 22, 2019The preparation for a Disaster sounds like
a lot of work!
It isn’t as much as you think.
Keep in mind that a disaster will occur.
All computers eventually break.
When this happens, you will appreciate
your preparation efforts.
Disaster Seminar 21 — Accounting Disaster Preparation
July 15, 2019The accounting requirements are as follows:
1. Don’t use paper-less billing,
a. Loss of internet equals not receiving
your bill.
b. Multiple copies of bills means you
are more likely to get your bill even
in a disaster.
2. Make printed copies of all of your
Accounting activity.
a. In a dire emergency, you can do
accounting by hand.
b. (Paper) Weight of the evidence is
useful in a disagreement.
3. Make strong passwords.
a. If you can easily remember the
password, it isn’t strong enough.
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Disaster Seminar 20 — Long Term Backup Storage
July 8, 2019When the backup folder has little less
than 4 giga-bytes:
1. Prepare two DVD’s from the backup folder
2. Store one of these DVD’s near the machine.
3. Store the other DVD at a remote location.
4. Clean up the backup folder.
5. Clean up the three flash drives.
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