At 02:45 28/11/2000, Douglas S. Smoot wrote: >When backing up flow data onto CD-ROMs, do you all make 2 copies, YES!!!!!! One copy goes to the lab group for their offline analysis and another copy is stored in a safe, non-accessible place. >and how important is it to make 2 copies vs. simply making 1 copy. When (not if...) somebody ruins or loses the lab copy of the CD the data is not lost, and we can make them a new copy. We even had a student who was leaving the country try to take the lab copies with him.... The loss of data could be much more costly than the extra copies. Joseph. -- Joseph Webster, Flow Cytometry Facility Centenary Institute, Sydney AUSTRALIA.Received on Wed Nov 29 12:25:19 2000
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