7 Critical Steps to a Bullet-Proof Backup System by Linus Chang
Imagine this - you arrive one morning to find that a faulty read-write head has crashed your server's hard disk overnight, rendering it useless. Or a small electrical fire has destroyed part of your office, including your server. This server was used to store customer lists, payroll details,... As a side benefit, physical and network access to that machine (and therefore to critical and perhaps sensitive data) can more easily be restricted, improving security. ... It is far simpler and easier to backup, restore and protect one machine than several.

Backup and Recovery for Smaller Organisations--How to Build an Effective Data Backup Strategy by Lee Morrell
There are many factors which will potentially determine your best data backup strategy. Regardless of your companies size the thought process should be the same. The main factors to take into account are the amount of data being backed up, how quickly you need to backup and more importantly, how... Your initial costs include hardware, software and, the backup media itself, don’t expect much change from £4,000, but don't forget the cost of managing your backup, over a 3 year period management will cost more than the actual data backup hardware and software put together.

Laptop Hard Drive Recovery by Tony Roberts
Our society now has become fast paced and individuals feel the need to cope up thus the popularity of laptops. These machines allow individuals to carry out their daily tasks even when they are not at home or in the office. Most companies nowadays allow their employees to telecommute or bring... There are a lot of great companies that offer data retrieval services for laptops and they allow shipping of your laptop to their laboratories and once they have retrieved your data, your laptop and files will be sent back to you.

Why You Should Back Your Data Up by Jessica Cander
Have you ever lost an important file on your computer? It is a very annoying feeling, which above the emotional factor involved can have far-reaching consequences if it was a valuable file. Every business and individual will most likely experience the loss of some amount of stored data on their... Two main types of data recovery exist; they are what are known as “logical recovery” and “physical recovery”. ... A backup is essentially the act of routinely creating copies of your (or the company’s) important files and storing them on a secure form of media (be it a tape, a DVD, CD, etc).

The Need for a Backup Strategy by Aleksey Rubin
So you’ve decided to backup your data but what is the next step? You must have a backup strategy irrespective of whether you are a home user or a business user. The depth of the strategy is the only variant between these two types of users. As time goes by people and businesses are facing... Invest in good Backup Software : Read the reviews, visit the websites and look out for features and assurances that the product you are buying is reliable, fast and easy to use. ... Home-user data includes documents, audio and video files, scanned images, and digital photos.

Few Steps To Prevent Data Loss And Preparing For Disaster by Ali Bokhari
Prevent Data loss and Preparing for Disaster You know that computer security is important to you and your business. But do you know exactly what you need to do today to protect your home/business computer? Sooner or later, disaster will strike. It does not have to be anything as dramatic as... It is far simpler and easier to backup, restore and protect one machine than several. ... As a side benefit, physical and network access to that machine (and therefore to critical and perhaps sensitive data) can more easily be restricted, improving security.

Back Up, You Writers! by Mitchell Allen
Take it from a programmer who lost seven days of criminal records. Take it from a game designer who tweaked version 1.0 one time too many. Take it from a Windows XP user who has no idea why Bill Gates likes to freeze PCs for no reason. Just like living a healthy lifestyle requires discipline,... Now that you have the background, you can wipe all the minutiae from your short-term memory and focus on the following: If you are using a PC with drag and drop capabilities, you can backup your work! ... On the one hand, if your work is scattered all over the hard drive and you elect to have a...

Advantages of Offsite Back-Up by Lee Morrell
Everyone admits that information is crucial in modern society. If you possess all the necessary information, you can easily set up your business on whichever terrain you choose. Think about all the possible misfortunes that can overwhelm your office: say fire or earthquake for example, or what’s... A backup system is easy to configure, it offers great security to all the files, and works fast and efficient. ... An automated data backup storage is a recovery solution as well: you can extract anything that you need in less than a second.

Hard Drive Dead? Bring those Files Back from the Dead with the Help of a Data Recovery Service by Tony Roberts
How many times did you hear your colleague remind you to back up those files? Many times already! But did you listen? No. A thing such as data loss can never happen to you. Not with your brand new, shiny pc. But apparently you were wrong. The worse has happened and you didn’t expect it. ... Data recovery service includes rescuing of lost data from hard drives (and other media including DVD, RAID, backup tapes, disk arrays, floppies, CD-ROM, iPods and other MP3 players, digital camera media and removable cartridges) that is caused by hard drive failure/crash, corruption, human error,...

Data Backup - Do You Have A Data Backup And Recovery Plan In Place? by Lee Morrell
Data backup is rarely a part of a home computer user’s or business IT administrator’s plans, we all say it will never happen to me or my company, but in reality we are just mentally preparing for the time we lose our data. Its like trying to stop smoking, we all know we should do it but will... My friend’s office was broken in twice in two nights, first time resulted in loss of desktop computers and totally trashed alarm system (some data loss), and second night was to take the servers along with the backup device and media!