GiaKonda Ltd

Hints and Tips on Backup

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:25:11 +0000

Why back up?
1) Under the Data Protection Act, we are responsible for data we hold on other people. We should take care that personal information is only used for what we say it will be used for and that it is safe.
2) We don’t want disruption to our business caused by our IT system malfunctioning. Backing up our important data is part and parcel of our business continuity plan.

What to back up?
You only need to back up your data, not the operating system and programs. So the backup always takes up much less space than the rest. Once you have done your first backup, it should be possible to copy only the changes made between backups.

How?
It is always a good idea to keep as much as possible of your data together in one place to simplify the backup process. In our office all our data is in a folder on one computer.
When it comes to the backup process it is simply a question of copying that folder to another location.
One backup should ideally be off-site, in case there is a total disaster in the office.

To know a little bit more, contact us on 01792 422616

New customer website

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:33:32 +0000

We’re quite excited to be creating our latest website for a company that organises fishing trips. Could be a chance to get out on the sea ourselves! We register domains, create the site and host it in our servers in … Continue reading →

New server cabinet

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:34:32 +0000

Our new server cabinet is up on the wall and switches set up. All is working well and the cabinet was a bargain at £58.

VLAN on a Netgear router

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:06:22 +0000

Just finished setting up VLAN on my Netgear 5 port router. Very powerful for its size.
All in all pretty impressed with Netgear kit.

Now offering Server courses

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:15:45 +0000

Just ordered a very basic server to use to run practical Microsoft Server courses. The server will be available for students at GiaKonda IT Ltd, each student having their own server for up to 6 months. The course will include … Continue reading →

Updating main website

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:32:39 +0000

Spent a couple of hours this morning updating the main Giakonda IT website using Joomla. Added some contact details.We know it still needs work but I think it’s getting better.
I’d welcome any constructive comments.

Rip off

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:36:51 +0000

Just had a most frustrating trip to Swansea shopping centre. It made me realise how dishonest bit companies are. I bought a razor with 4 spare blades only to find on opening them there was only 1. The shaving cream I bought came in a packet that was 1/4 bigger than the jar, and the top was 1/3 the total volume with nothing there! I went to the bank to cash a cheque, a refund from a big American company, only to find it was out of date (90 days).
If you want to deal with an honest company that won’t swindle you then give us a try. I’m sure you won’t regret it.

Netgear NAS box highly recommended

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:59:50 +0000

Using Netgear NAS to back up all our data – coping very well. Yesterday I needed to upgrade its storage capacity from 250GB to 1TB and was able to do this easily by swapping out a hard drive. No install … Continue reading →

Happy Christmas

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:16:52 +0000

Wishing all our blog followers a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
Watch this space to see what’s new for 2012.

A web server from £150 NAS box

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:53:26 +0000

The NAS box is an inexpensive and very useful device for backing up files onsite or remotely.
I used Netgear Duo which contains two drives that I’ve set up so that they mirror each other, thereby ensuring whatever’s on them is pretty safe.
Since it’s built round Open Source software, the only cost of putting it together as a web server is your time. It took me a whole day to get it running as I had to acquire and instal the latest versions of PHP, WordPress and some addons from Netgear to turn it into a Linux web server.
All this on top of the fact that it stores all our company data, securely backed up automatically and on demand.