Great intro music, goes hand in hand with the gangsta id3 tag. You guys are so funny.

Love the intro music and I think it adequately represents how we felt about it here in Broward. Disaster recovery is one thing, dealing with no power telephone or internet is quite another. In hurricane events its always best to have a plan and a course of action beforehand so you can take care of all the other problems that pop up - like not having a fence anymore.

Great show, still listening and taking notes. This is like a 20 page book on backup practices and you guys just gave it away. Amazing, thank you!

Vlad,

I found out about your show from the post you made on Microsoft Small Business Channel mailing list.

I do not fit the same crowd as most people posting there so I just lurk and try to learn. I am responsible for my company’s SBS server and workstations and am trying to learn as much as I can.

I just listened to episode #3 and thanks to you and your guests I have several pages of suggestions and ideas to discuss with my boss in the morning. While we do not have much critical stuff we cannot rebuild as a print shop I simply cannot believe how much is possible with just $300. I do not believe we can pass up the opportunity to protect ourselves for so little. We have received quotes for tape drivers, off-site storage, direct storage and other pricy things but nothing was in the range you talked about.

I just want to thank you and your guests for all the sharing. You have helped a small Utah print shop get a backup process started and althoguh we are not as boring as your guest suggested I hope we never have a need for the backups. For $300 we will not take the risk tho. Thanks again for this show, you’ve got a fan in Utah.

Jeff C.

Another great show! Thanks for putting together a lot of good information. Two things I should have mentioned while talking with you is that everyone needs to remember to test the backups! They don’t do any good if their faulty. Another thing is regarding safe deposit boxes…these are great, but keep in mind that they are not waterproof. During last years storms I know of several bank vaults that were flooded from the rains that leaked through the AC system. I’d recommend putting hard drives/tapes in a waterproof case inside the box.

Oh, and didn’t mean anything bad about Utah! Sorry.

Thanks again guys!

Wow, 5000 downloads in a week? Now that is something to celebrate though knowing you I’m not surprised even a little bit. Way to put energy into this I think you’re doing everyone a great service.

One suggestion I have is to add some “bumper” music between your phone calls, it is rather obvious when you cut from one person to another. Another useful feature would be show notes with timestamps so that one can cut to what they wanted to hear. Last thing I would add would be show notes and quotes. You can do a summary of what was discussed instead of describing your guests - that is something they should do to sell themselves. You should be promoting the show and the subject to get people interested in the topic, not the people.

Just my $0.02. SBS Show Rocks!

I really enjoyed the show and I must commend you on the number of women you’ve invited on so far. I know we’re a minority in this line of work and for you to give us such a huge voice and show so much respect… I’m impressed, thank you.

hey…don’t thank us jen.

we’re just contacting the folks who we think totally rock in this sector.

in some cases, those people happen to be female…in other cases, they happen to be male.

we’d prolly put a cocker spaniel on sbs show if 1.) it could talk and be entertaining, and 2.) it was an expert on Sharepoint customization (or .NET, or database server optimization, or what-have-you).

so better to applaud the ladies for kicking butt at what they do.

only total nimrods would fail to recognize their expertise.

we might be knuckleheads…but we’re not that far gone!

I have to complement you on same day delivery. The PSS folks take a couple of days to get their podcast out. Oh the agility of small business!

Perhaps next show you can talk a bit about:

Testing your backups to make sure that are really going to work when you need them.

Restore to new hardware in case of theft. How does SBS react to differences in hardware when you do this?

Great job on the podcasts.

Finally got to the show in my queue. Another great episode! Love the gangsta rap - thanks Vlad for keepin’ it real for the rest of us.

The pacing is good, and you have a great guest lineup. You’ve created a monster. Now all you have to do is get a couple of sponsors, quit your day job, and let all that sweet, sweet internet cash flow in. Oh, wait, that’s my dream
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Sigh…Stevereno - For the record, the PSS guys always publish Saturday night after midnight when my family is asleep and I have time to do a proper edit. It came out on Sunday this week because I was in the ER getting rehydrated after a bout with stomach flu on Friday night. Sorry, but the wife wouldn’t let me take the laptop to the hospital

mark:

hey man…that’s high praise indeed. thanks!

and glad to hear you’re on the mend.

looking forward to this friday’s inside sbs, as always!