Computers are such an integral part of our business activities. We should pay special attention to how our data is treated.It does not matter what industry you work in. Chances are you use your computer in some part of your business. As with everything else in your business you need to make sure there are safeguards in place to take care of your valuable information.
If you truly think about it, you may have original content written for your website, customer communications, emails that you have been saving with important instructions and probably
most valuable of all, your database.
Your database is most important resource for constant customer contact. The best advice I ever got was to backup data on my computer often. You never know when a power outage or a virus might hit your computer.
Just think how difficult it would be to replace your database that may have taken years to compile. It could take months to recreate all lost data and even then, it may not be reproduced in its entirety. Some data will be lost forever and can only be found in great abyss.
Your business insurance, assuming you have a policy will provide some compensation in event of a catastrophe. Backing up data is a form of insurance. Traditional insurance can’t bring precious data back from grave after a fire has turned every shred of paper and equipment to ashes. That is where backups come in.
Backing up your data often is worth its weight in gold. If something happens to your equipment, only thing you have to replace is programs on your computer. Your data can then be retrieved form its storage place.
How you store data and frequency at which you perform backups depends upon a couple of factors:
