I do not think a week goes by that I do not get a call from someone wanting to know if I can help them recover their photos from their hard drive that just died. All to often there is not much that I can do and they are faced with either sending the hard… Continue Reading
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Local Backup
Online backups are great for keeping a copy of all your important data off site. The reality of online backups are that they can take along time to restore a large amount of data. If you backup up 100gb of data to your online backup service it will take a long time to attempt to… Continue Reading
RAID is Not a Backup
Having a RAID is great, they offer improved disk performance, redundancy and are relatively easy to setup. Whether you use a hardware RAID or a software RAID I highly recommend using one. I have a hardware RAID setup on my main desktop and like having it. If a hard drive dies I can swap in… Continue Reading
Restoring
It does not matter if you are using an online backup service or doing onsite backups one of the things you should always do is a restore. There are several reasons to do a restore from your backup: To test the process so you know how to do it. It is great to have a… Continue Reading
Double Check Your Backup
In all the years I have been doing IT work, the number one error I see most often when people do a backup is that they forget to double check what files are actually being backed up. Backup sets are great, they can help to backup the files that you know you want backed up,… Continue Reading