Data isn’t data until it’s stored in two places – here’s how to make backup simple
Welcome to Day 36 of 100 days to business improvement…
Business improvement category: SMART TECHNOLOGY
Advicelet benefit: Peace of mind, as well as saving yourself from a potential irrecoverable business disaster. Data backup is something you cannot afford not to do.
The following statistics were gathered from various sources:
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- 6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year. (The Cost Of Lost Data, David M. Smith)
- 31% of PC users have lost all of their files due to events beyond their control.
- 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures.
- 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.
- 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately. (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)
- Hardware or system failure accounts for 78% of all data loss.
You’ll find plenty of differing numbers if you look around – but the facts are clear. People are generally not good at backing up their data in a disciplined, regular fashion and lose hours and hours of time, as well as personal memories, $£’s of music and multimedia and we all know that sinking feeling when you realise what’s happened – it’s not pleasant… But, it’s so easily avoided.
Today’s advicelet looks at a really simple, free way of backing up your data to an external hard drive, which could be applied to your own personal data, or a company server. In addition, we explore the best ways of backing up or storing your data in the Cloud in the follow up.
Ready to get organised and prevent future disasters? Well let’s begin…
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