Data Backup Planning

Making a plan to regularly back up your data is the key to making sure you never loose important documents, videos or pictures. The fact is every hard drive will fail sooner or later, what is your plan to make sure your not surprised?

Reasons for hard drive failure:
Michanical fault - Sooner or later the bearings will give way in all but solid state hard drives. When this happens the only way to retrieve the data is to take apart the old hard drive and use parts from a spare to make a working copy of your files. It's like buying a hard drive and then paying someone to rebuild it.

Droped or shocked - your laptop was dropped or you had a power surge at your home.

Demagnitized - this is largely a wives tale as the size of magnets needed to demagnitize a hard drive would curl your hair.

 

When a hard drive fails, by having regular backups, your assured that you won't loose to much data, it all depends how serious you are about your backup plan. AccentHost can work with you to create a back up plan, and we can even help to make sure that you are backed up, using our Remote Manintenance program to securly back up your information to a local external drive or a online system, so you can access your information on the go.

If you don't have a Back UP plan in place already, drop us a line and ask for our free guide. If you'd like us to create a personal Back UP plan, or to help make sure your data is securly saved.