Computer Basics

So, think “it” won’t happen to you? Won’t ever have a hard drive crash? Never a power surge? Viruses can’t get to you? What about a fire…or theft…a storm? There are any number of things that could happen to cause your data to be lost…

Here’s is where we put everything we’ve learned to good use and design a backup scheme that fits your needs.  In other words…how do we do a good backup and how do we make sure the data we think we put in the backup is actually there?  To find out continue here…

Now that we know why we need to do backups and what the basic backup options are…if you’ve read part 1 of ”Do You Know Where Your Backup Is?”…it’s time to explore the other options for protecting your data and making sure it’s available when you need to use it…

Why backup data?The average failure rate of disk and tape drives is 100%!
What?
Yes, all drives eventually fail. Whether it happens during your ownership of it or not is not part of the equation.
Here’s the facts about data loss.
Data loss is caused around:
44% of the time by hardware or system malfunction
32% of the time […]