The BC Lions Need a Backup
Don’t get me wrong, the Leos have some great quarterbacks in Jarious Jackson, Buck Pierce and Zach Champion, but they still need backup.
Earlier this week, the home of offensive coordinator Jacques Chapdelain was broken into. The family was asleep upstairs while downstairs the thieves took his wife’s cellphone and his laptop. The laptop that had all the data for the BC Lions offensive schemes. All the plays. All the scouting notes. Everything.
It’s 2008, the age of thumb drives, MobileMe, Time Machine, external hard disks, Amazon S3, and more. 2008 is all about cloud computing. You know, back it up to the internet so you can get it anywhere at anytime.
But not the BC Lions.
All the data on the disk were unique to that computer, no backups, everything is gone.
“There was no backup,” Lions head coach Wally Buono said Wednesday. “The next time there will be.”
“It wouldn’t mean anything to most people,” Buono says. “Now, if the thief went and sold it to Calgary, it would mean something. They’d be able to de-code it. It’s all important information.”[Vancouver Sun]
So .. do you have a back up? Or will you wait until “next time” to get copies of your children as babies, your wedding pictures, or your life’s history?
Learn the lesson people. Back it up.
Back it up securely and away from the originals. If your house burns down and you have cd backups, they could melt. When thieves steal your laptop, they might just scoop those piggy back drives sitting right next to it.
Get your photos into Flickr, your videos onto YouTube and your important documents into MobileMe or Amazon S3.
Back.It.Up.
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