How to Choose an Online Backup Service If you’ve ever suffered computer failure and lost valuable data, photos, videos, or music, then you know the importance of data backup. While you certainly have the option of copying your data to a disk—which is certainly better than no backup at all—a growing number of individuals and businesses are opting to sign-up with an online backup service. These services automatically backup your data using your internet connection, and will continuously save new data as it’s being created. But, with so many online data backup services now available, how does one know which to choose? Are they all work pretty much the same? Do they all offer the same features? While no one can say which service is right [+]

Had a call the other day from an Attorney who's computer crashed. So after checking it out sure enough the hard drive has a serious problem. Of course the call did not come in to the office until almost closing time and this Attorney needed data off the drive that night. Well after a few hours realized that it was not going to happen that easy. Was going to have to run some special programs to see about getting any data off it at all. Called to inform the Attorney and was told that he would need a document faxed to him stating that the computer crashed and that right now is data is not recoverable. Reason for the letter was he was due in court the following morning and had documents on his computer for the case and wanted to [+]

Backup...Backup...Backup... It seems like no matter how many times you tell people that they need to back up their data they just don't believe it will happen to them. As you can see from this picture, there is an issue... [caption id="attachment_376" align="alignleft" width="675" caption="Bad Files"][/caption] The main issue is the drive has bad sectors/files on it and of course these are actually invoices that equal about $12,000 in billing that is suppose to be done "now".... Asked the customer if they had a current "backup" of their data and I received the "deer in the headlights" look and knew the answer without waiting. Now many many hours later and a late evening and the data is now recovered. Unfortunetely the cost would be less than a years worth of paying for backups. Backups are inexpensive and needed [+]

Backups....You tell customers that word over and over again yet you still find people out there that do not backup their data properly. How many times have you told a customer about backing up their files? Sometimes you go as far as giving them a flash drive and explain how to use it or demonstrate it for them only to have them come back to you about lost data. I actually think people do not realize that it can happen to them. I can't count the amount of times I have had customers lose their data due to hardware damage and either they can't recover it or it's cost a small fortune to recover it. For that reason alone you need to get your customers on an online backup program. Yes, I know of the "great concern" about online backups and security/protection and [+]