If you make your money by using a computer, you should protect yourself against all computer disasters. If you were a taxi driver, you would take out car and public liability insurance. If you were an employer, you might take out plant and tools insurance. If you were a landlord you would take out property insurance and loss of earnings insurance.
But what do you do if you toil on line? Well, when you work with computers, data is your most precious resource, but you cannot insure against losing it because you cannot prove that you ever had it. So, what can you do? The answer is that you have to have dependable backups and several of them.
The problem is that computers do not often break down so we become lulled into the false feeling of security that we can make backups tomorrow instead of right now. However, the longer that you work with IT, the more you realize that there are no warning signs if you are about to lose all your data, which might be your whole earnings stream.
For example, say you make web sites for a living and update them regularly so that the search engines find them appealing. What would occur if your hard drive crashed or if they were destroyed by a virus? You might say that you would download them from your Internet host and begin again, but that is not possible, because most HTML editors will not decompile a completed web site.
That would mean that you could never update those web sites again, so they would become less and less appealing to the search engines, so your ranking would fall and your income would plunge. And why? Because you failed to insure your business by taking sufficient backups. You failed to make provision for data recovery in the event of data loss.
However, no matter how frequently you backup your data on physical media, you will always be running a risk because anything physical, any item is liable to failure and deterioration. CD's do not last as long as we were told. I have lost loads of work that I thought was safe on CD's and hard drives are prone to fail with no notice at all.
Even if you do overcome these issues of storage, what occurs if there is a fire or a thief actually steals all your disks and computers? Your hardware would be insured but your livelihood, your data would be gone forever. All that hard effort. Your source of earnings. Lost. Forever.
There is a different alternative and that is not to keep your data on your computer, in your office or anywhere within a thousand miles of yourself. This is called cloud storage or cloud data storage. Microsoft calls it Sky Drive and offers 25 GB of free, password-protected, storage available from anywhere in the world. This kind of storage is the best in safe storage offering the best value recovery planning for computer data.
But what do you do if you toil on line? Well, when you work with computers, data is your most precious resource, but you cannot insure against losing it because you cannot prove that you ever had it. So, what can you do? The answer is that you have to have dependable backups and several of them.
The problem is that computers do not often break down so we become lulled into the false feeling of security that we can make backups tomorrow instead of right now. However, the longer that you work with IT, the more you realize that there are no warning signs if you are about to lose all your data, which might be your whole earnings stream.
For example, say you make web sites for a living and update them regularly so that the search engines find them appealing. What would occur if your hard drive crashed or if they were destroyed by a virus? You might say that you would download them from your Internet host and begin again, but that is not possible, because most HTML editors will not decompile a completed web site.
That would mean that you could never update those web sites again, so they would become less and less appealing to the search engines, so your ranking would fall and your income would plunge. And why? Because you failed to insure your business by taking sufficient backups. You failed to make provision for data recovery in the event of data loss.
However, no matter how frequently you backup your data on physical media, you will always be running a risk because anything physical, any item is liable to failure and deterioration. CD's do not last as long as we were told. I have lost loads of work that I thought was safe on CD's and hard drives are prone to fail with no notice at all.
Even if you do overcome these issues of storage, what occurs if there is a fire or a thief actually steals all your disks and computers? Your hardware would be insured but your livelihood, your data would be gone forever. All that hard effort. Your source of earnings. Lost. Forever.
There is a different alternative and that is not to keep your data on your computer, in your office or anywhere within a thousand miles of yourself. This is called cloud storage or cloud data storage. Microsoft calls it Sky Drive and offers 25 GB of free, password-protected, storage available from anywhere in the world. This kind of storage is the best in safe storage offering the best value recovery planning for computer data.