Backup
My first visit soon confirmed the worst: A failed hard drive – probably due to overheat. Everything stored on that computer was gone for good.
Experts take this so much for granted that they forget to warn others. (* See below for an exception) It works like this: Basically, only one software application can use (open) any single software file at any one time – into your computers volatile electronic memory, where your file is located during the time you’re working on [...]
It’s happened to my clients – it CAN happen to you! Your computers and all your paperwork are destroyed in an office fire or other computer disaster. What will you do? Even if you’re prepared for a computer disaster, you’ll still have to: Deal with your insurance inspector and claims adjuster Hire a cleanup contractor and [...]
I hope online backup services aren’t your only safety net! Don’t be lulled by a false sense of disaster recovery security By using only a remote backup service like Mozy or Carbonite. If all you care about is disaster recovery for your (smaller than their size limits) personal files, photos and the like, these services can be [...]
If you’ve already suffered a data disaster you probably have “backup religion”. If not, there’s no time like the present to prevent an inevitable computer nightmare! I say “inevitable” because the hard disk drive containing your Windows operating system and all your data is guaranteed to fail – sooner or later. It’s a hot, fragile, [...]
Your Security Policy It doesn’t need to be formal, but everybody who wants anxiety free computing needs some kind of Security Policy. Ignorance isn’t bliss when there are so many threats. And the biggest aren’t from the Internet. Let me scare you first and reassure you later. Consider a few common scenarios from my computer [...]
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