{"id":1156,"date":"2015-11-23T02:55:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T02:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2015-11-23T02:55:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T02:55:22","slug":"getting-ready-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"christmas-thank-you-clip-art-free-christmas-clip-art-downloads-admin-pclipart-pictures\"Its Christmas time again (well almost) and along with shopping, gifts, Christmas parties, holiday bookings and the thousands of other things in need of sorting.\u00a0 There are also a couple of IT related items to be checked off. <\/span>[header2 text=”Backups” align=”left” color=”#3ec940″ margintop=””] <\/span>Is anyone going to be swapping disk\/tapes?\u00a0 If the role is being passed between two people make sure the hand over takes place a week or two before needed.\u00a0\u00a0 Have both people change the tape\/disk each day for a week or so to ensure a successful transition.\u00a0 You will be surprised how common it is for instructions to be lost in translation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using tape backups?<\/strong>\u00a0 Do not have them set up to eject after the backup is complete.\u00a0 With no one there to swap in the next tape,\u00a0 your backups will stop working after the very first night.\u00a0 That can (and does) result in log files building up and running you out of disk space.<\/span><\/p>\n

KARE Offsite Backups<\/strong>.\u00a0 Clients with our KARE Offsite service have their backups replicate offsite using the internet.\u00a0 They need have no concerns.\u00a0 KARE will manage and maintain backups though out the holiday period.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

[header2 text=”Our Hours” align=”left” color=”#3ec940″ margintop=””] <\/span>We will be here every non statutory business day.\u00a0 For us its business as usual, so relax.\u00a0 Any problems, just call us.<\/span><\/p>\n

[header2 text=”KARE Clients” align=”left” color=”#3ec940″ margintop=””]\u00a0<\/span>Our proactive team will keeping an eye on everything for you.\u00a0 If we need to use an alternative call list over this period.\u00a0 Let us know who to contact, how and during what times.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

[header2 text=”Is January a quiet period in your business?” align=”left” color=”#3ec940″ margintop=””]\u00a0<\/span>If you are running a skeleton staff, then this is a good time of year to prep PC\u2019s. A bit of TLC for the desktops during the downtime ensures returning users can get off to the best start.\u00a0 Your Account manager or Team leader can help arrange this for you.<\/span><\/p>\n

[header2 text=”Relax” align=”left” color=”#3ec940″ margintop=””] <\/span>We only get one summer a year in New Zealand.\u00a0 Enjoy it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its Christmas time again (well almost) and along with shopping, gifts, Christmas parties, holiday bookings and the thousands of other things in need of sorting.\u00a0 There are also a couple of IT related items to be checked off. [header2 text=”Backups” align=”left” color=”#3ec940″ margintop=””] Is anyone going to be swapping disk\/tapes?\u00a0 If the role is being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}