How To Prepare

You should take a look at you computer system and or network and ask yourself, how would I get my business or computer back up and running if __________________

1. I came in to work and the computer/s was stolen.
2. The building caught fire and burn to the ground.
3. A Car or Plane crashed into the building and destroyed the computer/s
4. Lighting struck the building or near by and the computer will not run.
5. The hard drive had a major catastrophe. (this is one of the most over looked problems since the hard drive is a physical device.

To prepare for the above situations you should back up your data.

Backups:

(v.) To copy files to a second medium ( a disk, tape, cd, dvd) as a precaution in case the first medium fails. One of the cardinal rules in using comuters is back up you file regularly.

Even the most reliable computer is apt to break down eventually. Many professionals recommend that you make two or even three, backups of all of you files. to be especially safe, you should keep one back up in a different location from the others such as, your home, a safety deposit box.

1. The act of backup up.
2.  A substitute or alternative. The term back up usally refers to a disk to tape that contains a copy of the data

Another Mental Exercise To Underscore the Importance of Backups

Most unfortunately, there are some things that people only take seriously after they have experienced personally the pain that results from not taking them seriously. Backups definitely fall into this category. Most people are relatively nonchalant about them until disaster strikes-thereafter, they are much more diligent about backups (but after the damage is done.) Despite the difficulty in getting people to learn from other's mistakes, I' stubborn, so I try anyway in this section.

Here's a mental exercise that you can do to help you understand how important backups are. Take a look at you PC and think about what is on it. Think about your data and your programs. Consider how much time it took to create the data, and to set up and tweak you PC so that it works the way you like. Now Imagine that one morning you go to your desk and the PC has vanished without  a trace. What will you do?

Let's suppose you had insurance on the hardware, and a week later the new PC shows up at your door with a fresh new, clean hard disk. Now what? Most people who as themselves this question seriously, begin to take backups much more seriously. (Fortunately, for most people the exercise is only a mental exercise. but don't think it can't happen to you in the real world.)

Recovering from a disaster such as a total disk crash or theft of a PC can be very traumatic event, much more than most PC users realized. This is true even if backup exist; when they don't exist the situations is much, much worse. The pain of recovering from a disaster is almost always very high, and the cost is primarily in the time required to recreate the lost data. For even a small business, this can run into the thousands of dollars very quickly.

If you sill aren't convinced, consider this report from the University of Texas Center of Research on Information Systems. Of the companies that lose their data in a disaster:

• 90% are out of business within two years
• Nearly 50% never reopen their door at all after the disaster!

While some of this is probably due to reasons other than the data loss.

In many cases the data loss is what does the company in.

You can back up files using the operating system commands, or yo can buy a special-purpose backup utility. Back up programs often compress the data so that they backup require fewer disks.

We sell a very reliable automated backup system, available for most PC, and Servers.

Give us a call and we can go over that the system can do for you.

If you have any questions please let us know.....