Critical Mass: backups
Computer to store important information, including financial, planning, e-mail, even photos, but most users do not take into account a solid backup. This is a potential time bomb. Computer backups are made, and not much on trust. I see this every day, and people are destroyed without a solid backup.
Backup options:
Backup to an external hard drive is not a reliable long-term solution. A hard disk is simply a series of CDs from a read / write head are stacked, and these components are in constant motion. They wear, fatigue and lack of time. While generally acceptable for home use, this is not a good solution for business use.
Off-site backup has its own dangers. Upload speeds are extremely fast – it looks good. Most of the download speeds are so slow to recover, that even small amounts of data a few days to recover.
The best solution for backing up important data on an external RAID device with an industry-standard software product. A RAID is a redundant array of independent disks, so you can overlap if one disk fails. This device, while highly reliable, should be reviewed periodically, whether a successful backup.
Backup routine maintenance – Check whether you have a good backup:
There are two steps to a successful backup to verify. Every few months a test document, and you have your backups run as scheduled. The next clear day, the test document, then a restore. If this test file correctly to recover, you are halfway. This is the “big” picture of the backup.
The “detail” part of this test is that you should be familiar enough with your backup software is able to see and log to ensure that the backup ran without error. This is a simple but important step because it confirms that all the individual files backed up without errors.
Preparation is priceless:
To save a solid, verified backup a lot of sleepless nights. After a drive or server crashes, most people trying desperately one last desperate attempt and send the old hard drive for data recovery. Over the years, we have determined that the data recovery company a very unhappy customers to sign a contract that there is no guarantee that the information promises to be restored. The only guarantee is important for a fee and usually non-refundable. In my experience, we have never received a customer usable data from a data recovery company in the period of use in a productivity crisis.
The cost of computers and new backup, at least compared with what it means to replace the information is invaluable for most people.
A quick question:
The only question I always ask people when I first met them “disappear, if the computer you, at your desk, how would it affect you?
The reason I ask this is that most people say that no important information about the system, but we almost always call a few days later she covered the importance of their data.
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