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Poll: Where do you store your documents? 投稿者: ProZ.com Staff
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Both on the computer hard disk and other external storage device, just in case for backup.
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| How about multiple choice answer? | Jan 30, 2011 |
Hard disks (PCs and/or the server);
CDs and DVDs (the most important documents/projects);
Email.
Also, clients store many of our projects quite safely : they publish them on the Internet and in books/journals Are these "external storage devices"?
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Several of those, depending on what is meant by "store". CD for the insurance and archive, 2 external HDDs for the yearly back-up, memory stick for regular back-up of individual jobs (twice a day).
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Thayenga 
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| Multiple choice = Other | Jan 30, 2011 |
My documents/projects and other information are stored on:
1. the computer hard drisk
2. a memory stick
3. CDs
and the correspondence of the current project(s) are also stored in
4. separate Email folders
The latter will be stored on a memory stick upon project completion/delivery.
Happy Sunday!
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Thayenga wrote: My documents/projects and other information are stored on: 1. the computer hard drisk 2. a memory stick 3. CDs and the correspondence of the current project(s) are also stored in 4. separate Email folders The latter will be stored on a memory stick upon project completion/delivery. Happy Sunday!
ditto
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All files are backed up automatically every 24 hours by an online storage provider. Email correspondence is backed up by the cable provider.
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Rolf Kern
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Internal AND external Hard Disk.
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| Backup and long-term storage, presumably... | Jan 30, 2011 |
...as I imagine almost everyone saves their files directly onto their computer's hard drive as they work.
The question appears to reopen the debate over online or offline backups and their relative merits. Is it a risk to client confidentiality to store backups online? Personally I'm not that keen on the idea, it also brings another party into the equation and keeping it simple is often a virtue with these things. On the other hand, if you keep your backup copy of your data in your house a... See more ...as I imagine almost everyone saves their files directly onto their computer's hard drive as they work.
The question appears to reopen the debate over online or offline backups and their relative merits. Is it a risk to client confidentiality to store backups online? Personally I'm not that keen on the idea, it also brings another party into the equation and keeping it simple is often a virtue with these things. On the other hand, if you keep your backup copy of your data in your house and it burns down, then you've lost the lot.
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| Other tambien... | Jan 30, 2011 |
1) My brain
2) Some documents as hardcopy (printing via Xerox)
3) CD
4) External Harddisk
5) Internal Harddisk
6) Sending file attachments via e mail to myself for backup purp. (web server option)
7) Flash memory
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The great thing about e-mail these days is that you don't have to delete anything. So every document I receive and send is stored in my e-mail account. I work from files saved to a pen drive so my 'office' can be used on a different computer as and when needed. Then at the end of the year I burn all my files to DVD.
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| Hard disk and pen drive simultaneously | Jan 30, 2011 |
I save my files on the hard disk and pen drive simultaneously. If my computer breaks down while I´m working on a text, I lose next to nothing. I also do not delete any messages in my e-mail so all the documents I have ever received and translated are still there.
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| Good point, Oliver. But there are options. | Jan 30, 2011 |
Oliver Lawrence wrote:
Is it a risk to client confidentiality to store backups online? Personally I'm not that keen on the idea, it also brings another party into the equation and keeping it simple is often a virtue with these things.
If you are working on highly confidential files, such as texts for the government / military, you simply mark this folder to be exempt from the nightly backup.
On the other hand, if you keep your backup copy of your data in your house and it burns down, then you've lost the lot.
That's the point exactly. Online storage is an expensive "hobby", but if the office, the house, or the country has burned down, you still can access your files from anywhere in the world.
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| Cloud storage for backup | Jan 30, 2011 |
As several people have said, I use my computer hard drive and back this up on the internet.
This has proved a life saver. I had my laptop die and was able to continue working immediately on another computer by accessing the mirror of my documents folder.
I wrote an article ... See more As several people have said, I use my computer hard drive and back this up on the internet.
This has proved a life saver. I had my laptop die and was able to continue working immediately on another computer by accessing the mirror of my documents folder.
I wrote an article about the experience here:
http://www.proz.com/translation-articles/articles/2291/
Where I fell down was some of my emails were not backed up. I've since switched to using the IMAP protocol, so my emails are mirrored online. IMAP means that when I move emails into folders in my email programme, they are moved to the same folders in the online mirror. Sent emails also appear in the mirror. When I login to the mirror (basically a webmail system), they are in the familiar arrangement. I wrote about that here:
http://www.proz.com/translation-articles/articles/2384/
From a security point of view, I don't believe there is any less security in having things backed up in these password protected ways than receiving and sending files to the agency/client by email. In fact, they are likely more secure. ▲ Collapse
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Amy Duncan (X)
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I back them up on the hard drive while I'm doing them, and again when I'm done, and then on a pen drive if I haven't already sent them off. But if my computer should crash (highly unlikely since I have a Mac), I still have everything stored in Gmail.
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