Insure Your Information by Joe Light
There are so many ways to lose precious data stored on your hard disk - power loss or power surge, overheating, electrostatic discharge, virus attack, software failure, etc. Are you still thinking your data is safe? Don't! Backup! Backup early, backup frequently. ... WinBackup 2.0 Standard, the fastest backup and recovery software on the market, allows you to secure all your valuable data within minutes. ... Protects servers, business-critical applications, desktops, and notebooks Easy to set up and manage Fast, reliable, secure backups Smart restores with unparalleled accuracy...

Hard Drive Crash Prevention And Recovery Tips by Michael Cottier
The hard drive in our computers right now stores all of our data, and our computer could not function without it. There would be no World Wide Web, email or even an operating system without hard drives. Since hard drives are so important, a hard drive crash is without a doubt the biggest problem... Performing a defragment on your hard drive basically takes your data and organizes it into more convenient places so that the mechanical arm can access data faster and with the least amount of movement.

IT Department Skills to Support Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft CRM by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Plains as ERP and Microsoft CRM as Client Relation Management system is very robust combination and could serve midsize to large corporation as Business System.  Being VP IT or IT Director you need to foresee the positions to have in your IT department to do internal MS Great... Microsoft SQL Server Specialist – we specially do not name this position as MS SQL DBA, because both Great Plains and MS CRM are not very complex from the database administration side, they do not use indexes optimization, referential integrity, probably do not require complex transaction log...

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,... * 43% of companies that experience a severe data loss disaster, and that have no recovery plan in place, never re-open. ... It is vitally important that data is backed up before encountering hard disk failure, viruses, malicious software, mistakes by employees or other causes of lost data.

How to Backup Windows XP Home Edition by Stephen Bucaro
Your computer cost you from hundreds to thousands of dollars, but the computer itself is not the most valuable part. The data on the hard disk is the most valuable part. How many hours of work did you put into creating that data? One little event, like a power line spike from a lightning strike,... Even when you backup to relatively fast media like hard disk, the process can take 30 minutes or longer depending upon how much data is on the main drive. ... Then you'll need to shut down the computer to install the data and power cables to the backup drive.

Offsite Backups by James Walsh
The moment it happens, the primary concern for the user is to get the data back so that the work continues uninterrupted. Sensing this need, a multi-million-dollar data-recovery industry has cropped up that specialises in recovering lost data from a damaged storage device. ... The integrity of the backup data is guaranteed, since the server double-checks the data sent by the client software. ... Their capacities are not good enough when a huge amount of data has to be backed up as a matter of routine, especially by organisations like banks and insurance companies whose data storage...

IT Security and You! Part 3 - Data and Hardware-Media Disposal by David Baldwin
IT Security and You! Did You Lock the Doors and Windows When You Left For Work This Morning? Part 3: Data and Hardware/Media Disposal Giving Away PCs and Hardware This article does not discuss the Data Protection Act etc. It is about the proper disposal of information held on hardware and... That being said, keep tabs on backups, backup data can contain even more data than your live systems, data now deleted for instance, but that data could still be of value to someone, it is valuable to you – or you would not have backed it up.

Desktop Search is Not Search - This One is and Has a Random Option by Doug Pederson
Where are all the Great Desktop Search applications? If put to the test, net Search programs, would not measure up to this Search. Net and Desktop Search are from opposite ends, of the search spectrum. Their PR / propaganda on the Web may look impressive. ... (When data is portable, it becomes yours.) Start and stop anywhere in a MPEG clip. ... Desktop Search is a must, for the Video data deluge. ... That was it, I had my original system back.(Virus free to boot) (I keep detailed notes along with a few screen captures, of these recovery steps) For my bookmarks - favourites, I have screen...

3.5" FDD (Floppy Disk Drive) is Dead! Long live the USB Drive! by Akhilesh Singh
Do you remember the last time you used the FDD drive of your computer, and for what? Chance is if you have used it then it would be for some emergency booting of the computer, or for recovery of your broken OS. Meaning you would have not used it for data transfer using this medium. ... Zip Drive This drive released in 1994 by a company called Iomega was capable of holding 100MB of data. ... We can all recall the "Sector 0 Bad" error, and myriad number of utilities supporting various recovery and advanced modifications like: - One marking sectors bad (NDD - Norton Disk Doctor and its...

Condoms for Your PC – Backup Your Data by Tim Flynt
Backup is important and it is usually ignored. It is ignored until some malware wipes out a critical document, a power surge burns the PC, or you look away for a minute at the airport and find your laptop is missing. Let's look at what you can do to prepare for such a catastrophe. ... Unencrypted data stored off-site (not under your immediate control) may be fine for you if you have no need to protect your data from being read by others. ... BACKUP UTILITIES (OFF-SITE) – There are backup utility services that give you the added protection against loss of local data by storing your data in...