Why do I need to backup?

Ask yourself this.

Has your computer crashed before?
Have you had your laptop stolen?
Has an employee removed sensitive or even critical data from one of your computers?

If none of the above events have happened to you or your business, count your lucky stars. Computer crashes these days are unfortunately inevitable. File corruptions occurs more often than most would like and when these events occur, data is often not able to be retrieved back to a useable format.

Personally, where is your music stored? How about your photos? Increasingly the answers to these questions is a PC, laptop or Mac. They have replaced the CD library and the photo-album. Mind you, they are just as susceptible to fire, flood or another disaster.

So the question is, how do I ensure that my memories, music or business records are available if something unforeseen were to happen to my computer equipment. The answer is simple, backup your data. Everybody, should have some sort of backup procedure in place, whether it is for home or business.

Backing-up can be as simple as copying your files to a memory stick or burning them to a CD. Maybe you have invested some money into a Portable hard drive.

As an organisation you may have invested in a tape backup system, RAID technology on your servers or PCs or better still mirrored servers or a second off-site facility or office.

As with all things, the level of your backup procedures and the equipment used will be based on a number of factors including your budget and the nature of the data to be backed-up (how quickly you need the information retrieved etc). To see further information on the backup options click here.