Would you save your computer during a fire?

I think many people would grab their computer if their place was on
fire.

Would you save your computer during a fire?

I'd be yelling to the firemen below "Catch my computer!" :)


What can I do to protect my PC from a house fire?


D from BC
British Columbia
Canada

I think many people would grab their computer if their place was on
fire.

Would you save your computer during a fire?

I'd be yelling to the firemen below "Catch my computer!" :)

What can I do to protect my PC from a house fire?

I think many people would grab their computer if their place was on
fire.

Would you save your computer during a fire?

I'd be yelling to the firemen below "Catch my computer!"

What can I do to protect my PC from a house fire?

I think many people would grab their computer if their place was on
fire.

Would you save your computer during a fire?

I'd be yelling to the firemen below "Catch my computer!" :)


What can I do to protect my PC from a house fire?


D from BC
British Columbia
Canada

D from BC wrote:

I think many people would grab their computer if their place was on
fire.

Would you save your computer during a fire?

I'd be yelling to the firemen below "Catch my computer!" :)

What can I do to protect my PC from a house fire?

Do you see a house fire as a likely scenario ?

Graham

I think many people would grab their computer if their place was on
fire.

Would you save your computer during a fire?

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:11:26 +0100, Eeyore
rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:



D from BC wrote:

I think many people would grab their computer if their place was on
fire.

Would you save your computer during a fire?

I'd be yelling to the firemen below "Catch my computer!" :)

What can I do to protect my PC from a house fire?

Do you see a house fire as a likely scenario ?

D from BC wrote:
I think many people would grab their computer if their place was on
fire.

Would you save your computer during a fire?

I'd be yelling to the firemen below "Catch my computer!" :)


What can I do to protect my PC from a house fire?


D from BC
British Columbia
Canada

D,

I'd more likely save my Commodore Amiga 500 before I'd grab my main PC
that I use. Most hardware is cheap and easily replaceable. Heck the
insurance money is worth more than the PC.

As far as data goes, I use http://www.mozy.com and backup everything
remotely important there. So all my data is stored there, including
most of my pictures. Unlimited backup storage for $5/month. Also works
as poor man's revision control too.

I might grab my backup dvd case, too.

I'd probably grab my pool cues too.

(and wife and new baby, I guess) :)

Keith

"D from BC" <myrealaddress@comic.com> wrote in message
news:57d414lmvgj5rus89ohoa1p1saikpesouc@4ax.com...
I think many people would grab their computer if their place was on
fire.

Would you save your computer during a fire?

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-WDXMS2500TN-Passport-Portable/dp/B000RY2PLQ

Just grab your backup and get the hell out!

Huh... only 5 bucks a month for unlimited storage.
Do you encrypt before upload?

What can I do to protect my PC from a house fire?

D from BC wrote:
I think many people would grab their computer if their place was on
fire.

Would you save your computer during a fire?

I'd be yelling to the firemen below "Catch my computer!" :)


What can I do to protect my PC from a house fire?


D from BC
British Columbia
Canada

D,

I'd more likely save my Commodore Amiga 500 before I'd grab my main PC
that I use.

In article <57d414lmvgj5rus89ohoa1p1saikpesouc@4ax.com>,
D from BC <myrealaddress@comic.com> wrote:

What can I do to protect my PC from a house fire?

Your PC, or the data on it?

Step one is to take actual steps to reduce the likelihood of fires -
reduce clutter, especially clutter that burns. Live the Danish Modern
lifestyle, and fire has a hard time getting a hold. Difficult for most
real people to manage.

Step two along that line would be to absolutely minimize or eliminate
burnables (paper, upholstery, drapes, carpets, wood etc.) in the
particular room where the computer is, replace the door with a 2 hour
fire rated door, and add an extra layer or two (fully mudded and taped)
of 5/8 inch fire code gypsum board to the walls and ceiling. DO the
floor in ceramic tile or something like that. Also do the same to any
rooms below that room, and install sprinklers in the rooms and hallways
outside and below that room. There are comparatively low-cost
residential sprinklers on the market, though retrofitting is always
going to be spendy, while adding them to new construction is not too
bad, cost-wise - especially if you get a break on your insurance because
of them.

While you're spending your millions, might as well put a halon system in
the room itself, though in point of fact, local authorities might not be
happy with that in a residence. As the resident, you should question the
advisability of it as well.

So, build a little concrete shack out in the yard and move the computer
there. Put nothing that can burn in the shack.

Some people try running an external hard drive inside of a data-rated
fire safe. I don't know how much compromise the cable makes on the fire
safe's function, and do choose only a data rated one - the paper ones
get very hot and humid inside in a fire, as I understand it.
----
Iffen it's the data more than the PC itself, and you have something like
a separate garage (or a concrete shack in the yard...) you could set up
a server out there. It should be possible to mirror the content of a
server in the house and a server in the garage, so that both structures
would have to go to lose your data. Doesn't help that much if they are
the same building. Perhaps a "doghouse" set away from the house, or a
storm cellar, or that fallout shelter your parents put in in the 1950's.

Offsite backup copies are also good if you do them religiously, and
check that they are readable religiously. If your offsite backups
consist of 3 weeks of data from 1993 when you got the backup bug, and
then lost it again, they are not very helpful. Consider all sorts of
issues in choosing a place for them - flooding, fire, etc. A safety
deposit box at the bank is one possible place that offers a range of
security against many disasters, but if the bank floods, it's not such a
great choice.

---
If you're dead, the PC and/or the data on it are largely immaterial. So
if it's a question of getting out, or messing about trying to grab
computer, disk, external drive, backup CDs, whatever - get out. If that
stuff is on the way and takes essentially no time to grab, sure, grab
it. Otherwise, leave it and get out. If leaving it would upset you, get
the offsite backup bug and keep it. Make a habit of putting your on-site
backups in a place they can easily be grabbed on the way out the door.
The hardware is replaceable.