We’ve seen it happen over and over again. A client calls in a panic with a crashed hard drive. Nine times out of ten they don’t have a recent backup. With some nifty tools and detective work, we have restored our client’s data. Those are the happy ending stories. Occasionally, the news is not so good. Valuable data is lost forever in the electronic bit darkness. When we deliver the news to our client that all their data is not recoverable, we immediately see in their eyes the value their data had and the angst they feel for not keeping it safe.

Computers are a fragile thing and it’s a wonder they work at all.  Many people’s core business and personal activities revolve around the data that’s stored there.  Why do we treat something so important with such flippant neglect?  I think it’s because we don’t think it will happen to us. We’ve managed to get by without it. Don’t be a victim to this type of thinking. There’s a high probability that it will happen to you so protect your valuable data by backing it up on a regular basis. Once it’s gone, you can’t get it back.

With the advent of flash drives and DVD burners, most people can make copies of their critical files right at the desktop.  Disk storage is relatively inexpensive today and alternate disk storage devices are easy to implement.  Don’t wait another day.  Determine which data is critical and get on a regular backup schedule.  Just do it!