Law Office Technology

ThompsonWest Webinar Series

 Tom O’Conner, Browning.Marean and I have been doing some Webinar’s on legal technology for ThompsonWest.  We did one on Basic Law Firm Technology yesterday and we are doing one on 1/21/2008 on disaster recovery.  Certain states will give CLE Credit. 

Here is the description:

Disasters come in many forms -- hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, power outages even terrorist attacks.  The best disaster recovery plan is a disaster preparation plan so that your practice can be back in business as soon as possible. Technology can assist this process but there are other important business decisions to consider as well: availability of equipment, access to data, staffing issues .....all these are supported by technology in today's law firm and this session will show you how to put the the right technology system in place before disaster strikes.

http://westlegaledcenter.com/program_guide/course_detail.jsf?videoCourseId=18196558

 

 

Backup MyBusiness Retention Policy

BackupMyBusiness sent me this email after my previous post on their wonderful product.

If a file is in the backup selection and deleted from the computer it is retained for 90 days on the data center.  This is to prevent accidental deletions.   

If a file is still on the computer and the user decides he no longer wants to back it up and removes it from the backup selection the file is retained for 7 days.

In addition the 10 most recent versions (at a minimum) of every file are retained in the last 90 days.  So if you have a file changing on a monthly basis you would have 3 or 4 versions of the file available to retrieve.  If you were changing a file daily you would have at a minimum the last 10 days available.  This can be very useful when you accidentally save a file with the same name (meant to do a Save As instead of a Save) and later need to get the old version back.  Another scenario would be a file that becomes corrupted and you need find a good working version.

In the example you gave the file would be retained for 90 days rather than 7.