Data is very important in any business whether it is online or offline. Data stored in your server cannot be lost as it puts a full stop to your business. If you lose data then you have to spend a lot money, time and effort to replace them.
Backing Up With cPanel
The most important task of any system administrator is backing up the systems they are responsible for.
The Iomega Zip Drive: A Quick History
For many years the floppy disk dominated the data backup market for the home user as they offered affordable data storage. Ok using floppies was akward, slow and highly unreliable but at the time it was all we had. Then along came the Zip drive and the world of data backup changed overnight thanks to the creator of the Zip drive – Iomega. No longer were you restricted to a paltry 1.4MB of disk storage – now you could fit 100MB on one single Zip disk. Later this increased to, …
The Secrets To Avoid Data Recovery
Data recovery is a process whereby you can save data and files you accidentally deleted, had eaten by malicious software or viruses, hardware failures, corporate espionage and many more scenarios. Data recovery is a tricky thing, and if you’ve somehow deleted or had your important files corrupted or lost due to human error, business espionage, faulty hardware or software or any other reason; the good news is that your lost data is probably recoverable. When you discover tha…
Online Backups – Storing Your Files Remotely
There is one major problem with most computer backup procedures. Usually after a backup is made, all of the information and data stays in the same place as it always was. However, there are many disasters that could befall your data and computer that make it worthwhile to look into online backups as a precautionary measure. Online data backups will allow you to save a copy of your file or files in a hard drive that cannot be destroyed at the same time as your computer. Th…
Mozy – The Ultimate Online Backup Solution?
Data backup is something that you just can’t take for granted anymore. The risks from viruses, spyware and computer hardware problems are so many and so varied that not keeping at least one copy of your computer data backed up is just asking for the worst kind of trouble. Being protective of your data and having a data backup policy or procedure is no longer just in the domain of system administrators in big companies. Nope. Home users should now also have their own data prot…
How To Backup Your Computer Properly
Your computer likely cost you hundreds maybe even thousands of dollars. That’s one thing that you’re sure to worry about if anything happens to the computer itself. However, there’s another cost that is far higher than a few hundred dollars the data that is on the computer.
How To Backup Your Windows Registry
To put it simply, a windows registry is basically just a huge database of records. This database stores every single hardware & software configuration, settings on your computer. It is organized in a hierarchical model and can contain hundreds of thousands of entries.
5 Reasons For Owning A USB Flash Drive
There have been a number of wonderful inventions during the 20th and 21st century. Some of these creations have been both massive and minute. Very few of mankinds modern creations have revolutionized working life so much as the USB flash drive though. Ok now that might seem a bit much for some people but the reality remains the same – USB flash drives have made the working lives of millions of office workers, teachers, students, IT and other professionals massively more simpl…
A guide of Outlook Express backup
In those days, email loss causes majority of business loss. Viruses, power failures, software failures, hard drive failures are only a few examples of what could destroy the data on a hard drive, including all documents, emails and other files!
Unfortunately many people actually start to do backup copies only after they lose data.
Really? You Dont Need A Website Disaster And Recovery Program? Why?
If you answered YES to that, youre dead wrong my friend. Let me prove it to you by giving you real true-to-life examples.
Recently, I asked this question to one lady webmaster named Dorothy and she said quite simply,
Well, why should I do that? My webhost said that they guarantee 99.9% of the time, my website will be OK. Besides, I dont know how to do it if thats technical stuff. So why should I care?
That is the mindset of many people like her who really believ…
Offsite Backup: Benefits And Threats Unveiled
Good backup habits are essential to everyone who uses a computer with important information. It takes just a few accidental clicks of the mouse – or worse, one isolated hardware failure – and valuable data can be lost.
One dilemma for backup users is often where to put their backups. Storing them on your own hard drive is obviously not the best option. Not everyone wants to split their backups into several parts using a CD or DVD burner, and an external hard drive isn’t a …