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Backups – Are they working?

Written by Jess
Tuesday, 23 August 2011 21:21
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So you have your online backups in place!  Kudos, congratulations, you’re already a step ahead of many competitors and associates!!  But.

The crucial step that most companies never take (besides backing up in the first place) is to check that their backups are actually backing up what they want backed up.

You may do best to spend the one hour fee for a technical consultant to confirm that indeed, your stuff is backed up.  We’ve found too many clients feeling secure that Carbonite or Mozy or Crashplan is saying life is good, don’t worry, your data is safe.

When in reality it’s not.

Even some big companies never confirm their backups.  Not good.  This should be at least a monthly routine about which  you are 100% positive.

Questions?  Give us a call today and we can answer them!

 

Online Backups. Again.

Written by Jess
Wednesday, 05 January 2011 13:22
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Yes!!  It is THAT important, that we will keep hounding you on it.  Who does not has an ONLINE backup in place?

Our goal is for everyone we know to have in place a solid backup plan.  Key point – a backup that is off-site.  It’ll cost you 12 cents a day.  Less than a buck a week.

Target date:  1/11/11.  Do it now!  Here are some resources, pick any one of them:

www.carbonite.com

www.crashplan.com

www.mozy.com

www.sosonlinebackup.com/

If you are a business that maintains an email or database server, you’ll need a more specialized backup system.  Call us, and for this week only, we’ll get you started at only the cost of the backup providers plan.  NO LABOR COSTS.

So there, no excuses.

 

Resolution for 2011? Have data backups in place!

Written by Jess
Tuesday, 28 December 2010 20:40
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43%.  A new year is about to start so this is a number to remember.  43%.

 That’s the percentage of people who will lose irreplaceable files this next year.  Almost a 1 in 2 chance. 

 A new client of ours in Shoreview, MN recently had a serious hardware crash – all of their data was lost and it cost them over $2000 to salvage what they could. That is a pretty steep price to pay for procrastination!

 Where do computer problems come from?

 Over 1 / 2  are caused by hardware or equipment

About 1 / 3 are caused by viruses or human error

1 in 10 are caused by program crashes or software corruption

 Doesn’t really matter much though does it?  The files are still gone. 

 Unless you had a backup.

How about a New Year’s 2011 resolution be to get a backup in place! 

 Have it working by Tuesday 1/11/11 (just because that’s a cool date).