HELP – The laptop fell down the stairs!
ICT and computers in general are one of the most undervalued resource in a business – that is until they go wrong. When they do go wrong the repercussions can be catastrophic, productivity is halted and your business is affected.
One way you can protect yourself, at work and home, is to make sure you are backing up your data. By data I mean things like documents, spreadsheets and photographs.
How do you do yours?
If you currently backup to a USB stick are you sure that it won’t get lost or damaged? Fall off your keyring into a puddle? Put through the dishwasher? (YEP! That really happened!)
Do you backup to the cloud, for example DropBox?
Have you ever tried a restore?
Are you sure you can get the data back if you need to?
Everybody should be taking a backup of any data they think is important. I can’t tell you how many times we have had people in tears because they have lost all their wedding photos or little Jimmy’s baby photos! What if your laptop is stolen, lost or damaged? Is that the only place you keep your accounts data, VAT returns or treasured family recipes?
If there is a problem you need peace of mind that it will be fixed with minimal loss to your operation. That said it is not enough just to do the backups, or even just to remember to change the tape or disk every night. Have you ever checked if you can restore anything from your backup device?
Free and honest advice
If you don’t backup or are concerned about your current backup configuration then please give us a call. We will provide you with free and honest advice about how to protect your data at home or work.
We can help give you peace of mind with our network support services. We check that the backup is working as it should be and that you can recover data as and when necessary.