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Did You Ever Want to Completely Erase Everything on Your Computer?
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E-commerce, A No Nonsense Perspective For New Business
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Easy File Recovery - Basic Backup Guidelines
You can skip these backup guidelines and do not backup if you
have never misedited a file and saved, deleted a file by mistake
or have never had to recover from a hard disk crash, a virus, a
computer theft or other similar computer disaster.
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How To Check The Status Of Your Tax Refund Online
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iSCSI vs. FC for Meeting Mission Critical Requirements
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Mission
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Outsourcing IT Asset Retirement
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Paragon Drive Copy 8.0
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You Need To Backup
It doesn’t matter if you paid $500.00 or $2000.00 to purchase a new computer for your home or business; you will defiantly want to have some kind of insurance and backing up your computer is the best form of protection there is. There are...
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Are You Prepared For A Hard Drive Crash?
Its just a matter of time before you experience a hard drive
problem. Are you prepared to loose your data? If your hard drive
crashed right now do you have an action plan to follow? Most
people only think of backing up their data after they experience
a problem. Don't set yourself up for a data loss disaster.
Your data integrity action plan should consist of the following:
1) How often you will back up your data
2) What data you will back up
3) What back up procedure you will use
How often you back up your data can only be determined by how
important you feel it is. Answer this question "If my hard drive
crashed right now, I would be alright if I had the data from at
least (time) ago". Of course you would want everything but if
you could have the data from 1 month, or 6 months ago would that
be sufficient? Whatever time is sufficient mark it on your
calendar both a hard copy and set up a meeting on your PC to
remind you.
You change your smoke detector batteries when you turn your
clock back and when you turn it ahead right? Well back up your
data then too. If you don't change your clocks then pick some
holidays or special dates that happen close to the timeframe you
want to back up your data so you won't forget. What data you
back up depends on how you use your PC. Some of the key
directories, if you are using Windows, are the My Documents,
Favorites and Desktop directories.
Remember if you are using multiple profiles on your PC then the
three directories above can be different for each profile and
each one would need to be backed up. You will also want to
include your email data. Don't forget to write down the email
accounts you have. You should also write down any username and
passwords so they are not lost. You
should look at every
directory to see if it has information that you would need.
Make a list of all the software programs you are using. If you
have the physical CDs put them all together in a safe location.
Don't forget the CDs for your peripherals like your scanner,
digital camera, PDA etc... Collecting these CDs may remind you
of additional data that you need to back up. If you are running
software that you installed from downloaded files, burn them to
a CD-R and add it to your collection. If you use a CD-R or DVD-R
you can update it as you download and install new applications.
What procedure you use to back up your data can be determined by
the amount of data you want to back up. Your data might fit onto
a CD or DVD in which case you just need to burn it and you're
done. If it spans multiple DVDs then you might want to consider
getting a second hard drive to copy your data onto. If you are
not comfortable with adding a second internal hard drive or you
are using a laptop then you can purchase an external hard drive
to back up your data.
The information you have on your hard drive could disappear in a
flash. If you don't want to spend up to $3,000 to have a data
recovery company retrieve what information they can from your
hard drive, then take a few minutes right now and create your
back up action plan. If you ever have a data emergency your
action plan will be your insurance policy. If you adhere to it,
your valuable data will adhere to you!
About the author:
Jay is the web owner of http://www.dsl-in.com DSL, a website that provides
information and resources on DSL, DSL Service, and DSL Service
Providers. You can visit his website at: DSL Service
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