[TowerTalk] Total station grounding and ethernet (summary)
Jim Idelson
k1ir@designet.com
Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:20:14 -0400
>Pete, be careful not to spend more money attempting to protect something than
what that something is worth. An ethernet hub is a relatively inexpensive item
to replace in the unlikely event that it would ever get damaged. --Dave K0QE
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Regarding the above comment about protection cost versus equipment value . . .
Last summer I suffered a lightning strike on an ISDN line that serves my home
office. The strike took out everything connected to the line, including the
telco equipment down the street [an ISDN SLIC], my ISDN NT1, ISDN router,
10baseT hub, and three computers. All computers suffered damage that went way
beyond the 10baseT interface. Insurance coverage was sufficient to permit
replacement of everything. However, I never recovered the data on the disk
drives. And, I had no recent backups.
What is the best investment to protect yourself against catastrophic damage to
computers resulting from a lightning strike? Full data backups! Equipment only
costs money. How do you reconstruct critical data files representing years of
work?
Jim
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