When Your Computer Fails: A Disaster Recovery Strategy for the Home-based Business by Pamela Bruce
If you are self-employed and work from home, you wear several hats, so to speak: you may be the marketing manager, accountant, receptionist or PR person. You are also your own technical support department and therefore responsible for safeguarding your data. ... Back up data and store the media offsite . ... Here are some tips for implementing a disaster recover strategy: Buy an external hard drive . ... You should regularly (let your calendar program remind you) back up important data on CD-Rs or DVD-Rs and store these elsewhere, such as at a friend’s house or in a safe deposit box at...

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”. ... Latching on to the fact that so many people elect not to (or forget to) back up their data, a multitude of data recovery companies and computer experts have turned the act of...

Is Your Organization at Risk Without a Sufficient Backup and Recovery System? by Terri Roeslmeier
What if you lost physical access to your office? Could you be back in business at another location within a couple of days? If not, you should explore cost-effective, reliable backup choices. No one ever thinks it could happen to them. Yet, we have all seen and possibly experienced the... One never knows when one may need to recover data from a couple of days ago because the current data is not good. ... Restoration of data and resumption of use of the data is one thing that can be arranged. ... The plan should encompass not only the steps that will be taken to restore the data, but how...

Data Recovery Tips by Michael Russell
The worst thing about any emergency is that it messes up our daily routine and throws us into a state of confusion and we really can never rule out emergencies from our lives, life is full of surprises; some good, some bad. What makes the difference is how readily prepared we are for such... Data recovery or Disc Recovery services are things we hope we will ever have the need for. ... One of the most fatal emergencies most people are never really ready to accept is a problem with personal or business computers, as this most often results in vital data loss, and a data recovery system is...

58% Of Businesses Expect An IT Security Breach in the Next 12 Months by Lee Smith
A recent government survey of over 500 small businesses covering London and Surrey regions revealed that 58% of company owners expect a security breach in their IT system in the next year. 24% of those surveyed had already been subjected to a security breach and this is worrying as there are... Disaster Recovery and IT security are crucial factors for any business and with proper precautions, support and systems you can be safe in the knowledge that you, your business and your data are covered for any security, virus and spam threats.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - A Business Not a Technology Issue by Robert Mahood
Hackers, hurricanes, fires, flooding, power outages, denial of service attacks, application failures, employee error, sabotage and now terrorism are helping companies to focus on the necessity of a business continuity plan. Through the late 1990s as companies prepared for Y2K, many IT... However, losing your business functions, processes and systems as well as your company, customer and financial data can be devastating. ... This is also the time to determine resource requirements and acceptable recovery time frames.

Remote Backup as Part of a Disaster Recovery Strategy by Mike Colesante
New technologies and recent storm reports have forced many companies to review disaster recovery plans and data protection policies. Hurricanes striking the Gulf Coast and Eastern seashore have a significant impact on the businesses operating in their path. ... Recovery Time Objective (RTO) - The time objective to bring the system back on line following a failure Recovery Point Objective (RPO) - The acceptable amount of data loss from the last good backup prior to the point of failure Identify potential data loss events that can happen to your business.

Network Attached Storage – An Alternative To Tape Back-up by Mark Allen
Businesses have been using tape to back up their data since the early days of computing. Tape has its limitations, but it was much cheaper than the alternatives, so its use continued. Today, the situation is changing. The price of disk storage has come down dramatically and the performance,... Large amounts of data need to be accommodated (due to the need to keep multiple versions of the data), but in many cases the data will never be accessed. ... For rapidly changing and highly important data, the on-site and off-site systems can be set up to mirror each other, so that little or no data...

Easy File Recovery: Basic Backup Guidelines by Yuri Filimonov
You can skip these backup guidelines and do not backup if: you have never misedited a file and saved deleted a file by mistake never had to recover from a hard disk crash, a virus, a computer theft or other similar computer disaster. Probably, you may even think that you do not need to backup. ... If the importance of backup and easy file recovery has not yet become obvious, you may well conider ways to prevent the need to backup by increasing your file security by excellent proficiency. ... So what is the solution to prevent data loss ?

Five Steps to Assuring Successful Recovery of Data by Jason Perry
According to the National Archives & Records Administration in Washington, D.C., 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 or more days due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year. Whether your business data is in the form of a customer electronic database, office documents... Before you can get your data back, it's vital that you follow these five data recovery tips: STEP ONE: Determine the value of the data. ... Instead of fixing the problem yourself, turn the PC, server or laptop over to a professional data recovery expert to avoid permanent consequences of data...