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“beginning user is that of backup —- the making of spare copies of _

How much data can you afford to lose?» | _- One aspect of computer operation that often confuses the

“data to protect oneself against.data loss through operator error —

- ‘or equipment malfunction. It seems that most users tend to one

" of two extremes: the super optimist who never makes ‘backups, ~ believing that data loss disasters only: happen to other people, —

— To come up with a workable routine for backing up important _ data, it helps to look at the reasons we back up data in the first ‘place, First and foremost, backups are needed to provide us with

and the super pessimist who spends: hours per'week making extra ~ ‘backups of the full contents of a hard‘drive, most of it consisting

of programs and data that has not changed. °

spare copies of files ifcase the originals ate lost through acciden-

-tal erasure or alteration. In addition, some applications — for ex-

- ‘ample computer accounting — require additional period-end ‘backups for audit trail purposes. Other applications, such as

- word processing and’ spreadsheet, have much Jess stringent

.. backup requirements because many word processing documents ~ and spreadsheet calculations may be only

used once and then discarded. Programs only-need be backed up

once:‘at time of purchase, or at time of receipt of updates from

the supplier. r The other factor affecting backups is the kind of media one has for backup. If one has a fancy tape backup unit built into

‘the computer system, entire drive backups are easy to make and

maintain. However, if one is backing up onto floppies, a com- plete system backup of just a 20 Meg drive can require the use of 50 disks. Such a job is tedious to say the least.

Personally, I prefer to perform selective backups. This way on- ly data that needs to be backed up gets duplicated and one can spare oneself a lot of excess work. Word processing and spread- sheet data are kept on floppy and. only the important documents get duplicated. Accounting data is backed up at the appropriate ‘times in the accounting cycle. As a result, the total number of backup disks that need to be made in any given week can be kept to'a functional minimum. mo

Finally, if one uses routines such as the MsDOS BACKUP ‘command, one must learn how to restore data to one’s hard drive from the backed up data; otherwise backups are virtually useless. Although the preceding may sound obvious,1 have come across situations where users who had been religiously backing up data for years were completely stumped when they actually en-

~ countered a situation where they. had to restore their data.

TEACHER TRAINING IN THE NORTHWEST

The School Districts of Kitimat, Bulkley Valley, Prince Rupert and Terrace are interested In initiating a teacher training programme for people with university — degrees. Under the auspices: of a British Columbia University and coordinated by Northwest Community

teacher training programme in the Northwest. The pro- gramme will be offered once only and begin September 1, 1989. . Interested applicants please write, by May 15, to your local Superintendent of Schools and Indicate your degree and university. -

Superintendent of Schools School District #80 (Kitimat) 1515 Kingfisher Avenue Kitimat, B.C. VBC 155.

Bulkley Valley’ Superintendent of Schools : ' School District #54 (Bulkley Valley) P.O. Box 758 1 _--§mithers, B.C. VOJ 2NO 1. Prince Rupert. Superintendent of Schools _ “School District #52 (Prince Rupert) 634 - 6th Avenue East - : - -, Prince Rupert, V8J 1X1 i Terrace.. © — Superintendent.of Schools ~~ S$ehool District #88 (Terrace) $211 Kenney Street . Terrace, B.C. V8G 3E9

Kitimat: ’

College the. intent is that participants take their |

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Contributed by Deborah Sargent At its April 12 meeting, the

16-37 Community Futures’ com-

mittee appointed a board of

- directors for its Business

Development Center, one of the program options the committee has chosen as a tool for the long

term realization of the Com-

munity Futures Mission, ‘To facilitate the development of a strong and diversified communi- ty based economy by. designing and implementing strategies for

-. full and meaningful employ-

ment’. ' The six directors are residents from the 16-37 Region who

- Clarification -

‘In a story on page 18 of the. May 3 issue of the Terrace

Review, we indicated-that Robin Frazer is a counsellor with Pro- ject Reconnect. We were subse-

- quently informed that Mr.

Frazer is in fact, a volunteer working with the organization’s Safe: House committee. ~

Elections ,. British Columbia ae

youre not at home

possess a good knowledge of the “community of communities” within the region. The chairman

_ of the Community Futures com-

mittee and one other member of the committee are on the newly-

formed board in order to insure -

-continuity. The members of the

board are Detlef Beck, Kitimat. ‘Gerald Amos, Kitimat; Brooke Hodson, Terrace; Larry Rowe, Stewart; Arthur Mercer, New Aiyansh; and Vy Gillenbeck, Moricetown.

The directors held their first meeting April 26 and have begun the process of incorporation as a non-profit society.

The board of directors will be responsible for overseeing the operations of the Business Development Center, including both business counselling and financial assistance. The board will be responsible for assessing, approving or rejecting applica- tions for investment fund assistance.

The purposes of the Business Development .Center are as

‘follows:

- TL I he Provincial Election Act requires that a new Voters fae List be prepared now. To update our information, enumerators are calling at every residence in British Columbia. Their task is to ensure that every eligible voter is registered. If you're at home when the enumerator calls, you can register right then and there. If we miss you the first time, we'll call again. If on our second visit, we'll leave a registration form for you to complete, | pte-paid return envelope. At the conclusion of the enumeration,a | personal Voter Identification Card will be mailed to each registered voter. Be sure you are able to exercise one of your most important rights: get on the

Provincial Voters List:

Enumeration ’89. For further information, call 1-800-742-VOTE.

“i?

ce Review ~ Wednesday, May 10,1989

Board appointed for 16-37 siness Development Centre

ae

‘@ To assist the unemployed,

underemployed, and present and: a future. employers to develop —

business opportunities, services

and projects designed to provide: : and promote employment op- ~~

‘portunities. o. @ To participate in the financ-

ing of enterprises which will

create employment in the area. The Business Development

Center will provide knowledge- - . able staff who will be able to . give.assistance and technical ad-

vice to encourage and ‘facilitate the successful development and implementation of business

plans for new and expanding -

businesses. ;

_ The newly appointed board of

directors will be immediately advertising for a manager for the Business Development Center, who will be responsible for the overall administrative and functional operations of the Center. The board anticipates the Center will be operational this summer.

along with a

Chief Electoral Office Province of British Columbia

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