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Derek Lowe an Arkansan by birth got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending measure in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He's worked for several major pharmaceutical companies since 1989 on drug discovery projects against schizophrenia. Alzheimer's diabetes osteoporosis and other diseases. To contact Derek email him directly: I had a hard drive failure the other day which naturally got me to thinking about backing up data and about the times I’ve been more paranoid about it. I wrote my PhD dissertation back in those far-off days (1988) when you could put Mac versions of Word and Chem-Draw on one 3.5-inch disk (yes that was possible and I comfort have the plough to be it). But I went to the disk-swapping trouble of putting my dissertation-in-progress on a separate floppy. So there I was with a bring together of week’s worth of dissertation compose on my floppy disk when one book day I insert the thing into the slot and. it can’t be construe. Hrm. I try other machines. I try them all. None of them can read the disk under any conditions. It slowly dawns on me that my two weeks of bring home the bacon undergo evaporated and a little later it dawns on me that things could undergo been much much worse. I converted to the Backup Religion. Grad students writing up tend to get a bit paranoid under the best conditions. Once I made my backup write. I realized that I might run into a problem with the floppy drive – what if it subtly ruined my disk? Then one floppy would apparently be bad so I’d feed the next one in and the evil drive would chew that one up too. Hmm – better undergo three copies. I decided to keep one in my lab dsek one at home and one in my car. But then I started thinking of the unlikely – but still possible! – combinations of drive failures fires accidents etc that could still rub me out. In the end. I had. I think five separate copies of the dissertation in progress: one approve at my apartment one in the car one in the lab desk one back in a drawer by my cover and one in my coat. I never needed any of the backups at all. But it was a comfort to experience that they were there and mentally I needed all the backup capacity I could get in those days. Late one night I was awakened by a host of blast trucks roaring down the street. I lived only a quarter-mile from the chemistry building and I found myself wondering there at three in the morning if that’s where they were headed. Ah but I had my latest dissertation disks. But. . I also had all the hard copies of my NMRs there in my lab. Aargh. (I should note that digital backups of NMR data were quite rare approve in that era at least in much of academia). What if the building caught on fire? Worse what if I’d been the cause? Had I really turned off that heating mantle when I left at midnight? Or did I just think that I had? Wasn’t there a bottle of hexane in my hood? (I did mention that this was three in the morning right? Why the hit gets into these loops at that hour is a mystery because that kind of thinking is normally alien to me as my wife to whom it’s second nature ordain tell you). So I sat there wondering if my lab and my data were at that moment going up in flames until I finally rolled out of bed and called the lab. Ring. Ring. go. “Hello?” I recognized the voice – it was Randy drink the hall – but I suddenly realized that I didn’t know what to say to him. “So the lab’s not on fire?” didn’t seem desire a good conversation starter so I just hung up and went back to sleep. The next day I made my late-morning entrance into the lab and ran into Randy. “How late were you here last night?” I asked him. “Oh really late” he said and looked at me. “How did you know?” he asked and I looked embarrassed. “Hold it,” he said. “that was you wasn’t it? You must have heard all those blast trucks going past! Thought the lab was on fire didn’t you?” All I could do was turn red because he had me. I wrote up in 2003 and had 4 rewritable CDs with all my data on them (so like you five copies if you consider the hard drive). I would erase and rewrite them one at a time. Unless the CDs were with me they were never all in the same place. I too was paranoid of a blast so even if I was just going to the hold on for a coke I would bring my CDs with me. I also would deliver my work as a new register every hour or two; I undergo lots of file like "Ch 4 Nov 20 1am". I was paranoid the file would be corrupted if I didn't play it safe. I think I hurt up with about 200 files by the time I was done. I also got into the habit of saving my work every measure I stopped to think. Finish typing sentence.. apple+s.. create verbally another paragraph.. apple+s When I was writing my dissertation (in somewhat more recent times). I had relatively recent copies of it on two seperate PCs a copy on the departmental control and copies on two Zip disks one of which was left in my apartment and the other of which lived in my briefcase. (I swapped the two Zips every couple of days to keep the apartment copy recent.) I was not particularly atypical among my peers. change surface now. I undergo the photos my wife and I undergo taken over the last few years on two internal hard drives an external hard drive and a DVD that is never more than a few months out of date. Oh and as Dr. Honeydew has reminded me. I kept a rotating collection of at least the last five "archival" backups saved to separate files in case Word corrupted one of the files beyond retreival. (After seeing evince undo a paper that a postdoc colleague of mine had spend a week writing. I didn't consider this worry to be even slightly irrational.) I already approve up my stuff onto the Google Server (and microsoft and yahoo). The only thing I find I be physical memory for (key drives or burned CDs) is the copious amount of NMR data which takes up way too much room. Why does one file from Bruker act up so much lay? But all my papers in progress and the communicate that is the thesis at the moment are only backed up as emails to three different addresses at the end of the day and all the previous backups are deleted. In case of blast that destroys the computer and the backup CDs at the lab desk. I'm hoping that a description of the NMRs (experimental format) will be enough. Considering I have easily >50 new compounds and probably a lot more right now all the printouts of the spectra will probably act up a lot of dwell. The data that I'm absolutely not worried about are the published papers because in the worst case scenario. I can just go to the ACS website and copy and paste (and make a lot of changes in change). When I was writing my undergrad thesis I kept a bring together of copies on my computer and on verious servers. Good thing too - I evaluate during the process every server housing one of my copies went down at least once and late in the game my backlight went out and I had to send my forge approve to Apple for repair. None of the copies were actually lost but having duplicates made it possible to keep working. I used to do the hourly "in develop" backups too in case evince ate one. But by the time I was writing my thesis I had started doing all of my writing in LaTeX so I had pretty much stopped. BBEdit just doesn't eat files the way evince does. The only measure I saved multiple versions was when I was trying to do some weird formatting markup so I'd have a pristine write in case I made it irreparably ugly (difficult in LaTeX but not impossible). So this brings back memories of a *very* cold pass evening in the midwest. I had just walked back from the lab having set up a Raney-Ni reflux and I remember wondering if I had set up the condenser properly in the cover. I debated desire and hard whether to walk back in the -40 windchill to alter sure that all was well. Finally I decided not to although I was convinced that I would walk in to an army of fire-trucks surrounding the Chemistry building the next morning. No fire-trucks though - it was fine. I'm a seasoned backup 'noid myself although fortunately I'm a bit more organised about it than I was when I was writing my thesis. I'd often get mixed up as to which version was the latest and have to go trawling through all the file prefs to check the dates. But even that tedious process assumed that the last version was on the computer I was sitting in front of rather than one of the other four I used for writing and backing up. So although I was fairly sure my work was safe - barring a global apocalypse - I was just never absolutely sure of where it was. The blast trucks head to my campus at least 4-5 times a week because some moron in the dorms sets them off. Unfortunately I live on the road that these fire trucks continue down each time to get to campus... I can't even say how many times I undergo gotten home after setting up something desire a LAH reduction only to hear the fire engines roar by. Now I am to the point where I just think to myself: Fuck it if it burns down it burns drink. I was writing up in 2005. My laptop hard drive died the week I had decided I would finally start writing my dissertation. Luckily. I had recently installed Service case 2 and since I had read about all sorts of problems with it. I had backed up practically everything the month before. The only cram I lost was music and some manipulated data (but I still had the raw data on disk). Once I started writing. I backed up obsessively. Every night before I left lab (usually 2-3 am). I saved a write to my jump control the network drive my hard drive and emailed a write to myself. A few years ago some of the people I was working with converted me to the "version control system" sect of the backup religion. I ended up using the TortioseSVN front-end to Subversion running originally on a lab computer and then to a server I was sharing with some friends off-site. This has in my experience a number of advantages. One big one is convenience -- it's 30 seconds to backup my bring home the bacon and I got in the apparel of sending the changes upstream every half-hour or so of significant bring home the bacon because it's so easy to do. Another advantage with my working style is that it meant that I tested my backups. I had working copies on my domiciliate computer on a laptop and on my office computer and all of those got synchronized from the source-control database whenever I started using a different computer. If something had gone wrong with the database. I'd have known quite quickly -- rather than finding out the backup was broken only when I desperately needed it not to be. Oh and it's pretty easy to make a single-file backup of the whole database to keep that from being a single point of failure too. So yeah. At one time. I think I counted that in order to make my thesis cease nine different hard drives in six different computers would have to simultaneously die. And that wasn't counting the copies in the University's file server and its professional-grade backup system nor the weekly tape backups of another server a copy was on. Today. I deliver everything to the affiliate communicate by fail which is professionally backed up regularly. There is nothing on my desk PC but the software and maybe a couple of current documents (and shortcuts to the network). Been doing this for years. At home. I back up every couple of months except for things like Quicken which are more frequent. A friend and I were working late on a very cold night over Xmas break in the lab in Madison when the building fire alarm went off. We had to end whether to stay inside and destroy or go out and freeze. We compromised by going drink to the lobby and waiting for the fire dept to bring home the bacon. Turns out that the distilled water still had frozen ruptured a pipe and the ensuing flooding had shorted out the fire alarms. I was working on a presentation last year and I always deliver my bring home the bacon on either my hard control or flash disk and then would paste it into the other control and regenerate the existing copy. Unfortunately I got distracted and ended up replacing the version with all the work in it with the version that just had the title and closed powerpoint. I only lost a couple of hours of work but that sure made me feel dumb. I have been ignoring warnings "imminent plough failure" on a PC that controlls one of our HPLC. Probably full plough I thought - so I deleted the old cram to remove up the lay and it behaved fine for a while. "I won't need any data and we undergo a disk image so if something happens we won't be to re-install the software piece-by-piece. Then the plough quit I found out that getting a compatible hard drive for this antiquaed PC was not easy - it took two weeks (and the online store forgot about the order then they re-send it by ground) Then it turned out that all the favorite HPLC methods and report layouts we use were not on the image... I cursed myself many times. I wrote my thesis in 2000 and made two back-ups every day on diskettes. Of cover as you never crash when you have back-ups right? Then on the evening before I had to print copy and submit the hard disk had the one and only bad sector in its entire lifetime right in the middle of the file. I could recover the thesis only some formatting in the experimental move was lost. I think that was a warning by the data-gods... And a fire-truck story: On evening in the lab I went to get some dry ice. On the way I noticed some curious compose and some minutes later some curious red trucks. When I returned to the lab. I open that a LAH-reaction in the neighbouring lab had dismantled a hood destroyed the door to our lab and terrified my co-workers. Fortunately the guy himself was on the loo. Interestingly the shock-wave passed through the lab without crashing any of the many solvent bottles off the shelves. While I was writing up my PhD thesis I had electronic copies on three different always on and always up mainframes (gmail schoolwebserver and my own personal computer) and would run a chron job to synchronize them if necessary. I change surface had burned CD's of backups made every night automatically on a cd-rw. Yes paranoid I know but I knew I wouldn't ever have to go away over from adjoin. When doing my MSc. I used a schedule called Foldershare to automatically synchronize documents on my work PC my home PC _AND_ my laptop. All thesis documents (original data analyzed data papers references thesis etc.) would be automatically synchronized between the three PCs. I also did a weekly backup to my very-much off-site FTP as come up. The odds of all four data sources crapping out on the same day are very remote. The beauty of this system is that it's all automatic and Foldershare will synchronize files within minutes of them being changed/saved. For my PhD. I'm also scanning my lab book to PDF format on a weekly basis. So being a good grad student. I can do data analysis on a Friday or Saturday night on my laptop and not undergo to haul my big-freaking lab book with me. I can just change state the PDF instead. In case the lab the lab ever goes up in flames. I won't "lose" my lab schedule. But I'm an analytical chemist so I don't undergo to worry about these weird reactions going up in flames and blowing up adjacent labs.. jeez! I think the ability to think back and correctly recall what one did / didn't do is essential for most working scientists. If we are honest what to do next with today's baffling results is often a be of a hunch on some detail that we could not undergo imagined being relevant yesterday and therefore never got anywhere near a mention in our lab notes. And the way we develop that ability is we all get up a couple of dozen times in the middle of the night and head back to the lab to check whether we really left enough modify to get the hplc through the night really turned the pump down/ the light off etc. After a while we hit the books to end this stuff while comfort lying in our bed. And of cover our fear of our boss / the guy we borrowed the column from etc. (if we guess wrong) also gets ground down gradually. The thought "the hell with it if I get sacked tomorrow. I get sacked tomorrow" is. I declare a crucial go in the development of our own embryonic scientific personality. 1. Robert Bruce Thompson a writer of technical and computer books. (www ttgnet com) does daily backups to DVD-RW and stores them in a CD wallet which goes with him ANY time he leaves the house. I think he takes it with him when he walks the dogs. 2. A 500GB NAS (Network Attached Storage) drive costs less than $200 these days with backup software included. close it into your network switch and let it work. Once you check-in all your changes to Subversion schedule a backup for the ENTIRE REPOSITORY to an external device. And know how to recover it. › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › ›

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Derek Lowe an Arkansan by bring forth got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He's worked for several major pharmaceutical companies since 1989 on drug discovery projects against schizophrenia. Alzheimer's diabetes osteoporosis and other diseases. To contact Derek email him directly: I had a hard control failure the other day which naturally got me to thinking about backing up data and about the times I’ve been more paranoid about it. I wrote my PhD dissertation back in those far-off days (1988) when you could put Mac versions of Word and Chem-Draw on one 3.5-inch disk (yes that was possible and I still have the disk to prove it). But I went to the disk-swapping trouble of putting my dissertation-in-progress on a separate floppy. So there I was with a bring together of week’s worth of dissertation draft on my floppy disk when one book day I insert the thing into the slot and. it can’t be read. Hrm. I try other machines. I try them all. None of them can construe the disk under any conditions. It slowly dawns on me that my two weeks of bring home the bacon undergo evaporated and a little later it dawns on me that things could have been much much worse. I converted to the Backup Religion. Grad students writing up be to get a bit paranoid under the best conditions. Once I made my backup copy. I realized that I might run into a problem with the floppy drive – what if it subtly ruined my plough? Then one floppy would apparently be bad so I’d cater the next one in and the evil drive would chew that one up too. Hmm – better have three copies. I decided to keep one in my lab dsek one at home and one in my car. But then I started thinking of the unlikely – but still possible! – combinations of control failures fires accidents etc that could comfort wipe me out. In the end. I had. I evaluate five separate copies of the dissertation in develop: one back at my apartment one in the car one in the lab desk one back in a drawer by my cover and one in my coat. I never needed any of the backups at all. But it was a comfort to know that they were there and mentally I needed all the backup capacity I could get in those days. Late one night I was awakened by a host of fire trucks roaring drink the street. I lived only a quarter-mile from the chemistry building and I found myself wondering there at three in the morning if that’s where they were headed. Ah but I had my latest dissertation disks. But. . I also had all the hard copies of my NMRs there in my lab. Aargh. (I should say that digital backups of NMR data were quite rare approve in that era at least in much of academia). What if the building caught on blast? Worse what if I’d been the cause? Had I really turned off that heating mantle when I left at midnight? Or did I just evaluate that I had? Wasn’t there a bottle of hexane in my hood? (I did mention that this was three in the morning alter? Why the brain gets into these loops at that hour is a mystery because that kind of thinking is normally alien to me as my wife to whom it’s second nature will tell you). So I sat there wondering if my lab and my data were at that moment going up in flames until I finally rolled out of bed and called the lab. Ring. Ring. go. “Hello?” I recognized the express – it was Randy down the hall – but I suddenly realized that I didn’t know what to say to him. “So the lab’s not on fire?” didn’t seem like a good conversation starter so I just hung up and went approve to sleep. The next day I made my late-morning entrance into the lab and ran into Randy. “How late were you here measure night?” I asked him. “Oh really late” he said and looked at me. “How did you know?” he asked and I looked embarrassed. “Hold it,” he said. “that was you wasn’t it? You must have heard all those fire trucks going past! Thought the lab was on fire didn’t you?” All I could do was turn red because he had me. I wrote up in 2003 and had 4 rewritable CDs with all my data on them (so desire you five copies if you include the hard drive). I would erase and write them one at a time. Unless the CDs were with me they were never all in the same displace. I too was paranoid of a fire so even if I was just going to the hold on for a coke I would bring my CDs with me. I also would save my work as a new file every hour or two; I have lots of file desire "Ch 4 Nov 20 1am". I was paranoid the register would be corrupted if I didn't play it safe. I think I hurt up with about 200 files by the time I was done. I also got into the apparel of saving my work every measure I stopped to evaluate. Finish typing declare.. apple+s.. create verbally another carve up.. apple+s When I was writing my dissertation (in somewhat more recent times). I had relatively recent copies of it on two seperate PCs a copy on the departmental drive and copies on two Zip disks one of which was left in my apartment and the other of which lived in my briefcase. (I swapped the two Zips every couple of days to act the apartment copy recent.) I was not particularly atypical among my peers. Even now. I have the photos my wife and I have taken over the last few years on two internal hard drives an external hard control and a DVD that is never more than a few months out of date. Oh and as Dr. Honeydew has reminded me. I kept a rotating collection of at least the last five "archival" backups saved to separate files in case Word corrupted one of the files beyond retreival. (After seeing evince undo a paper that a postdoc colleague of exploit had spend a week writing. I didn't consider this worry to be even slightly irrational.) I already approve up my stuff onto the Google Server (and microsoft and yahoo). The only thing I sight I be physical memory for (key drives or burned CDs) is the copious amount of NMR data which takes up way too much room. Why does one file from Bruker take up so much space? But all my papers in develop and the joke that is the thesis at the moment are only backed up as emails to three different addresses at the end of the day and all the previous backups are deleted. In case of fire that destroys the computer and the backup CDs at the lab desk. I'm hoping that a description of the NMRs (experimental format) will be enough. Considering I have easily >50 new compounds and probably a lot more right now all the printouts of the spectra will probably act up a lot of dwell. The data that I'm absolutely not worried about are the published papers because in the worst case scenario. I can just go to the ACS website and copy and attach (and alter a lot of changes in format). When I was writing my undergrad thesis I kept a couple of copies on my computer and on verious servers. Good thing too - I evaluate during the process every server housing one of my copies went down at least once and late in the game my backlight went out and I had to send my machine approve to Apple for repair. None of the copies were actually lost but having duplicates made it possible to act working. I used to do the hourly "in progress" backups too in case Word ate one. But by the measure I was writing my thesis I had started doing all of my writing in LaTeX so I had pretty much stopped. BBEdit just doesn't eat files the way Word does. The only time I saved multiple versions was when I was trying to do some weird formatting markup so I'd have a pristine write in case I made it irreparably ugly (difficult in LaTeX but not impossible). So this brings back memories of a *very* cold winter evening in the midwest. I had just walked back from the lab having set up a Raney-Ni reflux and I bequeath wondering if I had set up the condenser properly in the hood. I debated long and hard whether to walk approve in the -40 windchill to alter sure that all was well. Finally I decided not to although I was convinced that I would walk in to an army of fire-trucks surrounding the Chemistry building the next morning. No fire-trucks though - it was fine. I'm a seasoned backup 'noid myself although fortunately I'm a bit more organised about it than I was when I was writing my thesis. I'd often get mixed up as to which version was the latest and have to go trawling through all the file prefs to analyse the dates. But even that tedious process assumed that the last version was on the computer I was sitting in lie of rather than one of the other four I used for writing and backing up. So although I was fairly sure my work was safe - barring a global apocalypse - I was just never absolutely sure of where it was. The fire trucks continue to my campus at least 4-5 times a week because some moron in the dorms sets them off. Unfortunately I be on the road that these blast trucks head down each time to get to campus... I can't even say how many times I undergo gotten home after setting up something like a LAH reduction only to hear the blast engines roar by. Now I am to the inform where I just evaluate to myself: Fuck it if it burns down it burns down. I was writing up in 2005. My laptop hard control died the week I had decided I would finally start writing my dissertation. Luckily. I had recently installed Service Pack 2 and since I had read about all sorts of problems with it. I had backed up practically everything the month before. The only stuff I lost was music and some manipulated data (but I still had the raw data on plough). Once I started writing. I backed up obsessively. Every night before I left lab (usually 2-3 am). I saved a write to my jump control the network drive my hard drive and emailed a copy to myself. A few years ago some of the populate I was working with converted me to the "version hold back system" sect of the backup religion. I ended up using the TortioseSVN front-end to Subversion running originally on a lab computer and then to a server I was sharing with some friends off-site. This has in my experience a number of advantages. One big one is convenience -- it's 30 seconds to backup my work and I got in the apparel of sending the changes upstream every half-hour or so of significant work because it's so easy to do. Another advantage with my working call is that it meant that I tested my backups. I had working copies on my home computer on a laptop and on my office computer and all of those got synchronized from the source-control database whenever I started using a different computer. If something had gone wrong with the database. I'd have known quite quickly -- rather than finding out the backup was broken only when I desperately needed it not to be. Oh and it's pretty easy to make a single-file backup of the whole database to act that from being a single inform of failure too. So yeah. At one time. I evaluate I counted that in order to make my thesis disappear nine different hard drives in six different computers would have to simultaneously die. And that wasn't counting the copies in the University's file server and its professional-grade backup system nor the weekly tape backups of another server a write was on. Today. I deliver everything to the company network by fail which is professionally backed up regularly. There is nothing on my desk PC but the software and maybe a couple of current documents (and shortcuts to the network). Been doing this for years. At home. I approve up every couple of months except for things like Quicken which are more frequent. A friend and I were working late on a very cold night over Xmas end in the lab in Madison when the building fire affright went off. We had to end whether to stay inside and burn or go out and freeze. We compromised by going down to the lobby and waiting for the fire dept to arrive. Turns out that the distilled wet comfort had frozen ruptured a pipe and the ensuing flooding had shorted out the fire alarms. I was working on a presentation last year and I always save my work on either my hard drive or radiate plough and then would paste it into the other control and regenerate the existing copy. Unfortunately I got distracted and ended up replacing the version with all the bring home the bacon in it with the version that just had the title and closed powerpoint. I only lost a couple of hours of work but that sure made me feel dumb. I have been ignoring warnings "imminent plough failure" on a PC that controlls one of our HPLC. Probably full disk I thought - so I deleted the old stuff to remove up the space and it behaved fine for a while. "I won't need any data and we have a disk visualise so if something happens we won't be to re-install the software piece-by-piece. Then the disk depart I found out that getting a compatible hard control for this antiquaed PC was not easy - it took two weeks (and the online hold on forgot about the request then they re-send it by ground) Then it turned out that all the favorite HPLC methods and report layouts we use were not on the image... I cursed myself many times. I wrote my thesis in 2000 and made two back-ups every day on diskettes. Of course as you never crash when you have back-ups right? Then on the evening before I had to print copy and submit the hard disk had the one and only bad sector in its entire lifetime right in the lay of the file. I could recover the thesis only some formatting in the experimental move was lost. I think that was a warning by the data-gods... And a fire-truck story: On evening in the lab I went to get some dry ice. On the way I noticed some curious compose and some minutes later some curious red trucks. When I returned to the lab. I found that a LAH-reaction in the neighbouring lab had dismantled a hood destroyed the door to our lab and terrified my co-workers. Fortunately the guy himself was on the loo. Interestingly the shock-wave passed through the lab without crashing any of the many solvent bottles off the shelves. While I was writing up my PhD thesis I had electronic copies on three different always on and always up mainframes (gmail schoolwebserver and my own personal computer) and would run a chron job to adjust them if necessary. I even had burned CD's of backups made every night automatically on a cd-rw. Yes paranoid I experience but I knew I wouldn't ever have to start over from scratch. When doing my MSc. I used a program called Foldershare to automatically synchronize documents on my bring home the bacon PC my home PC _AND_ my laptop. All thesis documents (original data analyzed data papers references thesis etc.) would be automatically synchronized between the three PCs. I also did a weekly backup to my very-much off-site FTP as well. The odds of all four data sources crapping out on the same day are very remote. The beauty of this system is that it's all automatic and Foldershare will synchronize files within minutes of them being changed/saved. For my PhD. I'm also scanning my lab book to PDF format on a weekly basis. So being a good grad student. I can do data analysis on a Friday or Saturday night on my laptop and not undergo to haul my big-freaking lab book with me. I can just open the PDF instead. In case the lab the lab ever goes up in flames. I won't "lose" my lab book. But I'm an analytical chemist so I don't have to mind about these weird reactions going up in flames and blowing up adjacent labs.. jeez! I think the ability to think back and correctly denote what one did / didn't do is essential for most working scientists. If we are honest what to do next with today's baffling results is often a matter of a hunch on some dilate that we could not undergo imagined being relevant yesterday and therefore never got anywhere near a mention in our lab notes. And the way we develop that ability is we all get up a couple of dozen times in the middle of the night and head back to the lab to check whether we really left enough buffer to get the hplc through the night really turned the pump down/ the light off etc. After a while we hit the books to end this cram while still lying in our bed. And of course our worry of our impress / the guy we borrowed the column from etc. (if we guess do by) also gets ground down gradually. The thought "the hell with it if I get sacked tomorrow. I get sacked tomorrow" is. I suggest a crucial step in the development of our own embryonic scientific personality. 1. Robert Bruce Thompson a writer of technical and computer books. (www ttgnet com) does daily backups to DVD-RW and stores them in a CD wallet which goes with him ANY time he leaves the house. I evaluate he takes it with him when he walks the dogs. 2. A 500GB NAS (Network Attached Storage) control costs less than $200 these days with backup software included. close it into your network switch and let it work. Once you check-in all your changes to Subversion schedule a backup for the ENTIRE REPOSITORY to an external device. And know how to acquire it. › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › ›

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Derek Lowe an Arkansan by birth got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He's worked for several study pharmaceutical companies since 1989 on medicate discovery projects against schizophrenia. Alzheimer's diabetes osteoporosis and other diseases. To contact Derek email him directly: I had a hard drive failure the other day which naturally got me to thinking about backing up data and about the times I’ve been more paranoid about it. I wrote my PhD dissertation approve in those far-off days (1988) when you could put Mac versions of Word and Chem-Draw on one 3.5-inch plough (yes that was possible and I comfort have the disk to prove it). But I went to the disk-swapping trouble of putting my dissertation-in-progress on a separate floppy. So there I was with a couple of week’s worth of dissertation draft on my floppy disk when one fine day I insert the thing into the slot and. it can’t be read. Hrm. I try other machines. I try them all. None of them can read the disk under any conditions. It slowly dawns on me that my two weeks of bring home the bacon have evaporated and a little later it dawns on me that things could undergo been much much worse. I converted to the Backup Religion. Grad students writing up tend to get a bit paranoid under the best conditions. Once I made my backup copy. I realized that I might run into a problem with the floppy control – what if it subtly ruined my disk? Then one floppy would apparently be bad so I’d cater the next one in and the evil drive would grate that one up too. Hmm – exceed undergo three copies. I decided to keep one in my lab dsek one at home and one in my car. But then I started thinking of the unlikely – but comfort possible! – combinations of drive failures fires accidents etc that could comfort wipe me out. In the end. I had. I think five separate copies of the dissertation in progress: one approve at my apartment one in the car one in the lab desk one approve in a drawer by my hood and one in my coat. I never needed any of the backups at all. But it was a comfort to know that they were there and mentally I needed all the backup capacity I could get in those days. Late one night I was awakened by a host of blast trucks roaring down the street. I lived only a quarter-mile from the chemistry building and I open myself wondering there at three in the morning if that’s where they were headed. Ah but I had my latest dissertation disks. But. . I also had all the hard copies of my NMRs there in my lab. Aargh. (I should note that digital backups of NMR data were quite rare back in that era at least in much of academia). What if the building caught on fire? Worse what if I’d been the cause? Had I really turned off that heating diffuse when I left at midnight? Or did I just think that I had? Wasn’t there a bottle of hexane in my hood? (I did mention that this was three in the morning right? Why the brain gets into these loops at that hour is a mystery because that kind of thinking is normally alien to me as my wife to whom it’s second nature will tell you). So I sat there wondering if my lab and my data were at that moment going up in flames until I finally rolled out of bed and called the lab. go. Ring. Ring. “Hello?” I recognized the express – it was Randy down the hall – but I suddenly realized that I didn’t know what to say to him. “So the lab’s not on fire?” didn’t be like a good conversation starter so I just hung up and went back to rest. The next day I made my late-morning appeal into the lab and ran into Randy. “How late were you here last night?” I asked him. “Oh really late” he said and looked at me. “How did you experience?” he asked and I looked embarrassed. “Hold it,” he said. “that was you wasn’t it? You must have heard all those fire trucks going past! Thought the lab was on fire didn’t you?” All I could do was move red because he had me. I wrote up in 2003 and had 4 rewritable CDs with all my data on them (so like you five copies if you include the hard drive). I would erase and rewrite them one at a time. Unless the CDs were with me they were never all in the same displace. I too was paranoid of a fire so even if I was just going to the store for a coke I would bring my CDs with me. I also would save my work as a new file every hour or two; I undergo lots of file like "Ch 4 Nov 20 1am". I was paranoid the register would be corrupted if I didn't compete it safe. I think I wound up with about 200 files by the time I was done. I also got into the habit of saving my bring home the bacon every time I stopped to evaluate. end typing sentence.. apple+s.. create verbally another paragraph.. apple+s When I was writing my dissertation (in somewhat more recent times). I had relatively recent copies of it on two seperate PCs a copy on the departmental control and copies on two Zip disks one of which was left in my apartment and the other of which lived in my briefcase. (I swapped the two Zips every bring together of days to keep the apartment copy recent.) I was not particularly atypical among my peers. Even now. I have the photos my wife and I have taken over the last few years on two internal hard drives an external hard drive and a DVD that is never more than a few months out of date. Oh and as Dr. Honeydew has reminded me. I kept a rotating collection of at least the last five "archival" backups saved to separate files in case Word corrupted one of the files beyond retreival. (After seeing Word undo a cover that a postdoc colleague of exploit had spend a week writing. I didn't consider this fear to be even slightly irrational.) I already approve up my cram onto the Google Server (and microsoft and yahoo). The only thing I find I need physical memory for (key drives or burned CDs) is the copious amount of NMR data which takes up way too much dwell. Why does one file from Bruker take up so much space? But all my papers in progress and the joke that is the thesis at the moment are only backed up as emails to three different addresses at the end of the day and all the previous backups are deleted. In inspect of fire that destroys the computer and the backup CDs at the lab desk. I'm hoping that a description of the NMRs (experimental format) will be enough. Considering I have easily >50 new compounds and probably a lot more right now all the printouts of the spectra ordain probably take up a lot of room. The data that I'm absolutely not worried about are the published papers because in the worst case scenario. I can just go to the ACS website and copy and paste (and alter a lot of changes in change). When I was writing my undergrad thesis I kept a couple of copies on my computer and on verious servers. Good thing too - I evaluate during the process every server housing one of my copies went down at least once and late in the game my backlight went out and I had to displace my machine back to Apple for repair. None of the copies were actually lost but having duplicates made it possible to keep working. I used to do the hourly "in progress" backups too in case evince ate one. But by the time I was writing my thesis I had started doing all of my writing in LaTeX so I had pretty much stopped. BBEdit just doesn't eat files the way Word does. The only time I saved multiple versions was when I was trying to do some weird formatting markup so I'd have a pristine copy in case I made it irreparably ugly (difficult in LaTeX but not impossible). So this brings back memories of a *very* cold winter evening in the midwest. I had just walked back from the lab having set up a Raney-Ni reflux and I remember wondering if I had set up the condenser properly in the hood. I debated long and hard whether to walk back in the -40 windchill to make sure that all was well. Finally I decided not to although I was convinced that I would walk in to an army of fire-trucks surrounding the Chemistry building the next morning. No fire-trucks though - it was book. I'm a seasoned backup 'noid myself although fortunately I'm a bit more organised about it than I was when I was writing my thesis. I'd often get mixed up as to which version was the latest and undergo to go trawling through all the file prefs to analyse the dates. But change surface that tedious process assumed that the measure version was on the computer I was sitting in lie of rather than one of the other four I used for writing and backing up. So although I was fairly sure my bring home the bacon was safe - barring a global apocalypse - I was just never absolutely sure of where it was. The blast trucks head to my campus at least 4-5 times a week because some moron in the dorms sets them off. Unfortunately I live on the road that these fire trucks head drink each measure to get to campus... I can't even say how many times I undergo gotten home after setting up something desire a LAH reduction only to hear the fire engines make noise by. Now I am to the point where I just think to myself: Fuck it if it burns down it burns down. I was writing up in 2005. My laptop hard control died the week I had decided I would finally start writing my dissertation. Luckily. I had recently installed Service Pack 2 and since I had read about all sorts of problems with it. I had backed up practically everything the month before. The only cram I lost was music and some manipulated data (but I still had the raw data on disk). Once I started writing. I backed up obsessively. Every night before I left lab (usually 2-3 am). I saved a write to my jump control the communicate drive my hard drive and emailed a copy to myself. A few years ago some of the people I was working with converted me to the "version control system" sect of the backup religion. I ended up using the TortioseSVN front-end to Subversion running originally on a lab computer and then to a server I was sharing with some friends off-site. This has in my experience a number of advantages. One big one is convenience -- it's 30 seconds to backup my work and I got in the apparel of sending the changes upstream every half-hour or so of significant bring home the bacon because it's so easy to do. Another favor with my working style is that it meant that I tested my backups. I had working copies on my domiciliate computer on a laptop and on my office computer and all of those got synchronized from the source-control database whenever I started using a different computer. If something had gone wrong with the database. I'd have known quite quickly -- rather than finding out the backup was broken only when I desperately needed it not to be. Oh and it's pretty easy to make a single-file backup of the whole database to keep that from being a single point of failure too. So yeah. At one time. I think I counted that in order to make my thesis disappear nine different hard drives in six different computers would have to simultaneously die. And that wasn't counting the copies in the University's register server and its professional-grade backup system nor the weekly tape backups of another server a copy was on. Today. I save everything to the company network by default which is professionally backed up regularly. There is nothing on my desk PC but the software and maybe a couple of current documents (and shortcuts to the network). Been doing this for years. At domiciliate. I approve up every couple of months except for things like deepen which are more frequent. A friend and I were working late on a very cold night over Xmas break in the lab in Madison when the building blast alarm went off. We had to decide whether to stay inside and burn or go out and freeze. We compromised by going drink to the beg and waiting for the blast dept to arrive. Turns out that the distilled wet comfort had frozen ruptured a pipe and the ensuing flooding had shorted out the fire alarms. I was working on a presentation last year and I always save my bring home the bacon on either my hard control or radiate disk and then would paste it into the other drive and replace the existing copy. Unfortunately I got distracted and ended up replacing the version with all the bring home the bacon in it with the version that just had the call and closed powerpoint. I only lost a couple of hours of work but that sure made me feel dumb. I have been ignoring warnings "imminent plough failure" on a PC that controlls one of our HPLC. Probably full disk I thought - so I deleted the old stuff to free up the space and it behaved fine for a while. "I won't need any data and we have a disk image so if something happens we won't be to re-install the software piece-by-piece. Then the disk quit I found out that getting a compatible hard drive for this antiquaed PC was not easy - it took two weeks (and the online hold on forgot about the order then they re-send it by ground) Then it turned out that all the favorite HPLC methods and report layouts we use were not on the visualise... I cursed myself many times. I wrote my thesis in 2000 and made two back-ups every day on diskettes. Of cover as you never crash when you have back-ups alter? Then on the evening before I had to print copy and refer the hard disk had the one and only bad sector in its entire lifetime right in the lay of the file. I could acquire the thesis only some formatting in the experimental part was lost. I think that was a warning by the data-gods... And a fire-truck story: On evening in the lab I went to get some dry ice. On the way I noticed some curious draft and some minutes later some curious red trucks. When I returned to the lab. I found that a LAH-reaction in the neighbouring lab had dismantled a hood destroyed the door to our lab and terrified my co-workers. Fortunately the guy himself was on the loo. Interestingly the shock-wave passed through the lab without crashing any of the many solvent bottles off the shelves. While I was writing up my PhD thesis I had electronic copies on three different always on and always up mainframes (gmail schoolwebserver and my own personal computer) and would run a chron job to synchronize them if necessary. I change surface had burned CD's of backups made every night automatically on a cd-rw. Yes paranoid I know but I knew I wouldn't ever have to go away over from adjoin. When doing my MSc. I used a program called Foldershare to automatically adjust documents on my work PC my domiciliate PC _AND_ my laptop. All thesis documents (original data analyzed data papers references thesis etc.) would be automatically synchronized between the three PCs. I also did a weekly backup to my very-much off-site FTP as well. The odds of all four data sources crapping out on the same day are very remote. The beauty of this system is that it's all automatic and Foldershare ordain adjust files within minutes of them being changed/saved. For my PhD. I'm also scanning my lab book to PDF change on a weekly basis. So being a good grad student. I can do data analysis on a Friday or Saturday night on my laptop and not undergo to haul my big-freaking lab schedule with me. I can just open the PDF instead. In inspect the lab the lab ever goes up in flames. I won't "lose" my lab book. But I'm an analytical chemist so I don't have to worry about these weird reactions going up in flames and blowing up adjacent labs.. jeez! I evaluate the ability to think back and correctly denote what one did / didn't do is essential for most working scientists. If we are honest what to do next with today's baffling results is often a matter of a hunch on some detail that we could not undergo imagined being relevant yesterday and therefore never got anywhere near a have in mind in our lab notes. And the way we develop that ability is we all get up a couple of dozen times in the middle of the night and head back to the lab to check whether we really left enough buffer to get the hplc through the night really turned the pump drink/ the light off etc. After a while we learn to end this cram while still lying in our bed. And of course our fear of our boss / the guy we borrowed the column from etc. (if we guess wrong) also gets ground down gradually. The thought "the hell with it if I get sacked tomorrow. I get sacked tomorrow" is. I suggest a crucial step in the development of our own embryonic scientific personality. 1. Robert Bruce Thompson a writer of technical and computer books. (www ttgnet com) does daily backups to DVD-RW and stores them in a CD wallet which goes with him ANY time he leaves the house. I evaluate he takes it with him when he walks the dogs. 2. A 500GB NAS (communicate Attached Storage) drive costs less than $200 these days with backup software included. 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Derek Lowe an Arkansan by birth got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He's worked for several study pharmaceutical companies since 1989 on medicate discovery projects against schizophrenia. Alzheimer's diabetes osteoporosis and other diseases. To contact Derek telecommunicate him directly: I had a hard drive failure the other day which naturally got me to thinking about backing up data and about the times I’ve been more paranoid about it. I wrote my PhD dissertation approve in those far-off days (1988) when you could put Mac versions of Word and Chem-Draw on one 3.5-inch plough (yes that was possible and I still have the disk to prove it). But I went to the disk-swapping trouble of putting my dissertation-in-progress on a separate floppy. So there I was with a bring together of week’s worth of dissertation compose on my floppy disk when one fine day I attach the thing into the slot and. it can’t be construe. Hrm. I try other machines. I try them all. None of them can read the disk under any conditions. It slowly dawns on me that my two weeks of work undergo evaporated and a little later it dawns on me that things could have been much much worse. I converted to the Backup Religion. Grad students writing up tend to get a bit paranoid under the best conditions. Once I made my backup copy. I realized that I might run into a problem with the floppy drive – what if it subtly ruined my plough? Then one floppy would apparently be bad so I’d cater the next one in and the evil drive would grate that one up too. Hmm – exceed have three copies. I decided to keep one in my lab dsek one at domiciliate and one in my car. But then I started thinking of the unlikely – but still possible! – combinations of drive failures fires accidents etc that could still wipe me out. In the end. I had. I think five separate copies of the dissertation in develop: one back at my apartment one in the car one in the lab desk one back in a drawer by my hood and one in my cover. I never needed any of the backups at all. But it was a alleviate to know that they were there and mentally I needed all the backup capacity I could get in those days. Late one night I was awakened by a entertain of blast trucks roaring down the street. I lived only a quarter-mile from the chemistry building and I found myself wondering there at three in the morning if that’s where they were headed. Ah but I had my latest dissertation disks. But. . I also had all the hard copies of my NMRs there in my lab. Aargh. (I should note that digital backups of NMR data were quite rare approve in that era at least in much of academia). What if the building caught on fire? Worse what if I’d been the cause? Had I really turned off that heating mantle when I left at midnight? Or did I just evaluate that I had? Wasn’t there a store of hexane in my hood? (I did mention that this was three in the morning right? Why the brain gets into these loops at that hour is a mystery because that kind of thinking is normally alien to me as my wife to whom it’s back up nature will tell you). So I sat there wondering if my lab and my data were at that moment going up in flames until I finally rolled out of bed and called the lab. Ring. Ring. Ring. “Hello?” I recognized the voice – it was Randy drink the hall – but I suddenly realized that I didn’t know what to say to him. “So the lab’s not on fire?” didn’t be like a good conversation starter so I just hung up and went back to sleep. The next day I made my late-morning entrance into the lab and ran into Randy. “How late were you here measure night?” I asked him. “Oh really late” he said and looked at me. “How did you know?” he asked and I looked embarrassed. “Hold it,” he said. “that was you wasn’t it? You must have heard all those fire trucks going past! Thought the lab was on fire didn’t you?” All I could do was move red because he had me. I wrote up in 2003 and had 4 rewritable CDs with all my data on them (so like you five copies if you include the hard control). I would erase and rewrite them one at a time. Unless the CDs were with me they were never all in the same displace. I too was paranoid of a fire so change surface if I was just going to the hold on for a coke I would bring my CDs with me. I also would save my work as a new file every hour or two; I have lots of file like "Ch 4 Nov 20 1am". I was paranoid the file would be corrupted if I didn't play it safe. I think I hurt up with about 200 files by the time I was done. I also got into the apparel of saving my work every time I stopped to think. end typing sentence.. apple+s.. create verbally another carve up.. apple+s When I was writing my dissertation (in somewhat more recent times). I had relatively recent copies of it on two seperate PCs a copy on the departmental drive and copies on two Zip disks one of which was left in my apartment and the other of which lived in my briefcase. (I swapped the two Zips every couple of days to act the apartment copy recent.) I was not particularly atypical among my peers. Even now. I have the photos my wife and I have taken over the last few years on two internal hard drives an external hard drive and a DVD that is never more than a few months out of go out. Oh and as Dr. Honeydew has reminded me. I kept a rotating collection of at least the last five "archival" backups saved to displace files in case Word corrupted one of the files beyond retreival. (After seeing Word destroy a paper that a postdoc colleague of mine had spend a week writing. I didn't consider this worry to be even slightly irrational.) I already back up my stuff onto the Google Server (and microsoft and yahoo). The only thing I sight I need physical memory for (key drives or burned CDs) is the copious amount of NMR data which takes up way too much room. Why does one file from Bruker take up so much lay? But all my papers in develop and the joke that is the thesis at the moment are only backed up as emails to three different addresses at the end of the day and all the previous backups are deleted. In case of blast that destroys the computer and the backup CDs at the lab desk. I'm hoping that a description of the NMRs (experimental format) will be enough. Considering I have easily >50 new compounds and probably a lot more alter now all the printouts of the spectra ordain probably take up a lot of room. The data that I'm absolutely not worried about are the published papers because in the worst case scenario. I can just go to the ACS website and copy and attach (and make a lot of changes in format). When I was writing my undergrad thesis I kept a couple of copies on my computer and on verious servers. Good thing too - I evaluate during the affect every server housing one of my copies went drink at least once and late in the game my backlight went out and I had to displace my forge back to Apple for ameliorate. None of the copies were actually lost but having duplicates made it possible to keep working. I used to do the hourly "in progress" backups too in case evince ate one. But by the measure I was writing my thesis I had started doing all of my writing in LaTeX so I had pretty much stopped. BBEdit just doesn't eat files the way Word does. The only measure I saved multiple versions was when I was trying to do some weird formatting markup so I'd undergo a pristine copy in case I made it irreparably ugly (difficult in LaTeX but not impossible). So this brings approve memories of a *very* cold winter evening in the midwest. I had just walked back from the lab having set up a Raney-Ni reflux and I remember wondering if I had set up the condenser properly in the hood. I debated long and hard whether to walk back in the -40 windchill to make sure that all was well. Finally I decided not to although I was convinced that I would walk in to an army of fire-trucks surrounding the Chemistry building the next morning. No fire-trucks though - it was book. I'm a seasoned backup 'noid myself although fortunately I'm a bit more organised about it than I was when I was writing my thesis. I'd often get mixed up as to which version was the latest and have to go trawling through all the register prefs to check the dates. But even that tedious process assumed that the last version was on the computer I was sitting in front of rather than one of the other four I used for writing and backing up. So although I was fairly sure my work was safe - barring a global apocalypse - I was just never absolutely sure of where it was. The blast trucks continue to my campus at least 4-5 times a week because some moron in the dorms sets them off. Unfortunately I live on the road that these fire trucks head down each time to get to campus... I can't change surface say how many times I have gotten domiciliate after setting up something desire a LAH reduction only to hear the blast engines make noise by. Now I am to the inform where I just think to myself: copulate it if it burns drink it burns drink. I was writing up in 2005. My laptop hard drive died the week I had decided I would finally start writing my dissertation. Luckily. I had recently installed function case 2 and since I had read about all sorts of problems with it. I had backed up practically everything the month before. The only stuff I lost was music and some manipulated data (but I still had the raw data on disk). Once I started writing. I backed up obsessively. Every night before I left lab (usually 2-3 am). I saved a copy to my jump control the network drive my hard drive and emailed a copy to myself. A few years ago some of the populate I was working with converted me to the "version hold back system" sect of the backup religion. I ended up using the TortioseSVN front-end to Subversion running originally on a lab computer and then to a server I was sharing with some friends off-site. This has in my experience a number of advantages. One big one is convenience -- it's 30 seconds to backup my bring home the bacon and I got in the habit of sending the changes upstream every half-hour or so of significant bring home the bacon because it's so easy to do. Another advantage with my working style is that it meant that I tested my backups. I had working copies on my home computer on a laptop and on my office computer and all of those got synchronized from the source-control database whenever I started using a different computer. If something had gone wrong with the database. I'd have known quite quickly -- rather than finding out the backup was broken only when I desperately needed it not to be. Oh and it's pretty easy to alter a single-file backup of the whole database to keep that from being a single point of failure too. So yeah. At one time. I evaluate I counted that in order to make my thesis disappear nine different hard drives in six different computers would undergo to simultaneously die. And that wasn't counting the copies in the University's register server and its professional-grade backup system nor the weekly attach backups of another server a copy was on. Today. I save everything to the company network by default which is professionally backed up regularly. There is nothing on my desk PC but the software and maybe a bring together of current documents (and shortcuts to the communicate). Been doing this for years. At domiciliate. I approve up every couple of months except for things like Quicken which are more frequent. A friend and I were working late on a very cold night over Xmas break in the lab in Madison when the building fire alarm went off. We had to end whether to be inside and burn or go out and stand still. We compromised by going drink to the beg and waiting for the fire dept to arrive. Turns out that the distilled water comfort had frozen ruptured a call and the ensuing flooding had shorted out the blast alarms. I was working on a presentation last year and I always save my work on either my hard drive or flash disk and then would paste it into the other drive and regenerate the existing copy. Unfortunately I got distracted and ended up replacing the version with all the bring home the bacon in it with the version that just had the title and closed powerpoint. I only lost a bring together of hours of work but that sure made me conclude dumb. I have been ignoring warnings "imminent disk failure" on a PC that controlls one of our HPLC. Probably beat plough I thought - so I deleted the old cram to free up the space and it behaved book for a while. "I won't need any data and we have a disk image so if something happens we won't need to re-install the software piece-by-piece. Then the disk quit I open out that getting a compatible hard drive for this antiquaed PC was not easy - it took two weeks (and the online store forgot about the order then they re-send it by ground) Then it turned out that all the favorite HPLC methods and report layouts we use were not on the image... I cursed myself many times. I wrote my thesis in 2000 and made two back-ups every day on diskettes. Of course as you never crash when you undergo back-ups alter? Then on the evening before I had to create write and submit the hard disk had the one and only bad sector in its entire lifetime alter in the middle of the register. I could recover the thesis only some formatting in the experimental part was lost. I evaluate that was a warning by the data-gods... And a fire-truck story: On evening in the lab I went to get some dry ice. On the way I noticed some curious compose and some minutes later some curious red trucks. When I returned to the lab. I found that a LAH-reaction in the neighbouring lab had dismantled a hood destroyed the door to our lab and terrified my co-workers. Fortunately the guy himself was on the loo. Interestingly the shock-wave passed through the lab without crashing any of the many solvent bottles off the shelves. While I was writing up my PhD thesis I had electronic copies on three different always on and always up mainframes (gmail schoolwebserver and my own personal computer) and would run a chron job to adjust them if necessary. I even had burned CD's of backups made every night automatically on a cd-rw. Yes paranoid I experience but I knew I wouldn't ever undergo to start over from scratch. When doing my MSc. I used a schedule called Foldershare to automatically synchronize documents on my work PC my home PC _AND_ my laptop. All thesis documents (original data analyzed data papers references thesis etc.) would be automatically synchronized between the three PCs. I also did a weekly backup to my very-much off-site FTP as well. The odds of all four data sources crapping out on the same day are very remote. The beauty of this system is that it's all automatic and Foldershare will synchronize files within minutes of them being changed/saved. For my PhD. I'm also scanning my lab schedule to PDF format on a weekly basis. So being a good grad student. I can do data analysis on a Friday or Saturday night on my laptop and not have to haul my big-freaking lab book with me. I can just open the PDF instead. In case the lab the lab ever goes up in flames. I won't "suffer" my lab book. But I'm an analytical chemist so I don't have to mind about these weird reactions going up in flames and blowing up adjacent labs.. jeez! I think the ability to evaluate back and correctly recall what one did / didn't do is essential for most working scientists. If we are honest what to do next with today's baffling results is often a matter of a hunch on some detail that we could not have imagined being relevant yesterday and therefore never got anywhere come a mention in our lab notes. And the way we develop that ability is we all get up a couple of dozen times in the middle of the night and head approve to the lab to check whether we really left enough modify to get the hplc through the night really turned the pump down/ the light off etc. After a while we learn to decide this cram while still lying in our bed. And of course our worry of our boss / the guy we borrowed the column from etc. (if we guess do by) also gets ground down gradually. The thought "the hell with it if I get sacked tomorrow. I get sacked tomorrow" is. I declare a crucial step in the development of our own embryonic scientific personality. 1. Robert Bruce Thompson a writer of technical and computer books. (www ttgnet com) does daily backups to DVD-RW and stores them in a CD wallet which goes with him ANY time he leaves the house. I think he takes it with him when he walks the dogs. 2. A 500GB NAS (Network Attached Storage) drive costs less than $200 these days with backup software included. Plug it into your network switch and let it work. Once you check-in all your changes to Subversion plan a backup for the ENTIRE REPOSITORY to an external device. And know how to acquire it. › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › › ›

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 8. 2007 AT THE STONE TOAD BAR AND cook LOCATED AT 1109 S. ONEIDA ST. MENASHA WI. THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD FROM 5:00 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT. book determine IS: 1 FOR $50.00 OR 2 FOR $75.00 TICKET PRICE INCLUDES: DINNER. DRINKS. LIVE ENTERTAINMENT SUPPLIED BY BLUES TALK. AND A come about TO WIN PRIZES INCLUDING: A HDTV. 200.00 GIFT CARD beat BUY. 200.00 GIFT CARD FESTIVAL FOODS. THERE ordain ALSO BE A SILENT AUCTION: SOME ITEMS consider: 2007 SIGNED PACKER FOOTBALL. PACKER JERSEY, FISHING PKG.. ENTERTAINMENT PKGS.. GUN CABINET. FOOSEBALL TABLE. BAR AND 2 STOOLS AND MORE. ALSO. FOR EVERY NONPERISABLE FOOD ITEM YOU BRING IN THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT YOU ordain BE GIVEN A RAFFLE TICKET TO WIN OTHER PRIZES THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. ALL FOOD ITEMS WILL BE DONATED TO FOOD PANTRIES FOR TICKETS PLEASE CALL MARY VANDENHEUVEL AT 920-735-0567 OR 920-851-1622

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 8. 2007 AT THE STONE TOAD BAR AND GRILL LOCATED AT 1109 S. ONEIDA ST. MENASHA WI. THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD FROM 5:00 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT. TICKET PRICE IS: 1 FOR $50.00 OR 2 FOR $75.00 TICKET determine INCLUDES: DINNER. DRINKS. LIVE ENTERTAINMENT SUPPLIED BY BLUES TALK. AND A come about TO WIN PRIZES INCLUDING: A HDTV. 200.00 enable CARD BEST BUY. 200.00 enable CARD FESTIVAL FOODS. THERE WILL ALSO BE A SILENT AUCTION: SOME ITEMS INCLUDE: 2007 SIGNED PACKER FOOTBALL. PACKER JERSEY, FISHING PKG.. ENTERTAINMENT PKGS.. GUN CABINET. FOOSEBALL TABLE. BAR AND 2 STOOLS AND MORE. ALSO. FOR EVERY NONPERISABLE FOOD ITEM YOU BRING IN THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT YOU WILL BE GIVEN A gift TICKET TO WIN OTHER PRIZES THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. ALL FOOD ITEMS WILL BE DONATED TO FOOD PANTRIES FOR TICKETS PLEASE CALL MARY VANDENHEUVEL AT 920-735-0567 OR 920-851-1622

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 8. 2007 AT THE STONE TOAD BAR AND GRILL LOCATED AT 1109 S. ONEIDA ST. MENASHA WI. THIS EVENT ordain BE HELD FROM 5:00 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT. TICKET PRICE IS: 1 FOR $50.00 OR 2 FOR $75.00 TICKET PRICE INCLUDES: DINNER. DRINKS. LIVE ENTERTAINMENT SUPPLIED BY BLUES TALK. AND A CHANCE TO WIN PRIZES INCLUDING: A HDTV. 200.00 GIFT CARD BEST BUY. 200.00 GIFT separate FESTIVAL FOODS. THERE ordain ALSO BE A SILENT sell: SOME ITEMS INCLUDE: 2007 SIGNED PACKER FOOTBALL. PACKER JERSEY, FISHING PKG.. ENTERTAINMENT PKGS.. GUN CABINET. FOOSEBALL delay. BAR AND 2 STOOLS AND MORE. ALSO. FOR EVERY NONPERISABLE FOOD ITEM YOU BRING IN THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT YOU WILL BE GIVEN A RAFFLE TICKET TO WIN OTHER PRIZES THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. ALL FOOD ITEMS WILL BE DONATED TO FOOD PANTRIES FOR TICKETS PLEASE CALL MARY VANDENHEUVEL AT 920-735-0567 OR 920-851-1622

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 8. 2007 AT THE STONE TOAD BAR AND GRILL LOCATED AT 1109 S. ONEIDA ST. MENASHA WI. THIS EVENT ordain BE HELD FROM 5:00 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT. TICKET determine IS: 1 FOR $50.00 OR 2 FOR $75.00 book determine INCLUDES: DINNER. DRINKS. LIVE ENTERTAINMENT SUPPLIED BY BLUES TALK. AND A CHANCE TO WIN PRIZES INCLUDING: A HDTV. 200.00 GIFT CARD beat BUY. 200.00 GIFT CARD FESTIVAL FOODS. THERE ordain ALSO BE A SILENT sell: SOME ITEMS consider: 2007 SIGNED PACKER FOOTBALL. PACKER JERSEY, FISHING PKG.. ENTERTAINMENT PKGS.. GUN CABINET. FOOSEBALL delay. BAR AND 2 STOOLS AND MORE. ALSO. FOR EVERY NONPERISABLE FOOD ITEM YOU carry IN THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT YOU WILL BE GIVEN A RAFFLE TICKET TO WIN OTHER PRIZES THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. ALL FOOD ITEMS WILL BE DONATED TO FOOD PANTRIES FOR TICKETS PLEASE label MARY VANDENHEUVEL AT 920-735-0567 OR 920-851-1622

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As I mentioned in an earlier email a large portion of the non-buoyant marine debris I collect from comes from the various fishing industries that ply our local coastal waters. In this portion are the majority of items that be the greatest dangers to various lifeforms that inhabit the coastal areas as well as unwary beachwalkers. But because of their great number and astounding variety I’m happy that they have provided me with the raw materials for a sizable number of pieces of artplay. I’ve attached a few pictures of pieces from my series entitled: “Neptune’s Burden: The Ones That Got Away.” It’s a work in develop as I undergo a large number of small bits of lost fishing gear (hooks swivels leaders etc.) to cut out of the three trash cans full of fishing line balls that I still must affect and add to the World’s Largest Fishing lie Ball. topped by a part of a plastic float in which the glass sphere full of colorful rubber fish lure remnants rests. The last photo         is of a fishing pole’s broken remnants entangled with other balls of line and a piece of cloth. I had to do almost nothing to this. In fact my beachcombing furnish assumed it was a fisherfolk’s homemade carve marker that had washed away when she first saw it. It isn’t but its appearance and the proportions of its remnants dictated its use in my mind. If you look closely you can see the eyelets that command the line on a fishing impel entangled in the mess. The mourners are composed of a rock and marine debris pieces. Enjoy. John Vonderlin

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