Barton Gellman Quotes

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

In 2001, the hard disk on my laptop crashed, and everything on it was lost. I'd been using the computer for two, almost three years, and had all my work on it - email, which was stored locally; photos; fragments of poems; presentations; sketches; ideas; love letters; everything. I lamented the loss to my friends and got lectured on doing backups.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

I don't know how to back up.

When I write a script, I have all the old versions of the script on my laptop. They're saved as backups in case something goes horribly wrong.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.

So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting.

Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.

The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.