As a small business owner you most likely find yourself very busy running daily operations, taking care of finances, personnel, and marketing. That typically leaves very little time to make sure that you computer is running at its maximum capacity. You probably have thought about the need for data backup, but either think it's too cumbersome to manage or never get to it.
Then one day, your computer crashes and you are left with... nothing. This could be very damaging to your business and very time consuming to restore the information, if it is even restorable. Many people who do experience a computer crash, become dedicated data "backupers" after the fact. Here is your chance to learn about the best options available and setup your backup system before you have a major crash.
The two main categories of the backup are local or web-based. With the local backup you can copy data to a CD if you have a CD-RW drive, copy data to an USB drive or to an external hard drive. You can either do it manually that is probably not an option for most of us due to the perpetual lack of time or you can use a software like Norton 360 to schedule it.
The web-based options include backing up your data manually to your ftp site if you own a website or setting up an automatic service with one of the providers. From personal experience, backing up manually is typically not an option. We've tried it, but still managed to loose data in the last crash (which was pricey to recover). The best option in our opinion is the "set and forget" service.
We hope you find our quick data backup overview helpful. Don't procrastinate signup with one of the free data backup companies today! Data recovery services are an expensive option, you definitely want to avoid! Keep your small business running smoothly!
About the Author:
Tiana Nelson, CMA, CFM is a Business Development Manager at
Preferred Capital Alliance, Inc, a Better Business Bureau accredited company that helps small- and medium-size businesses obtain business loans, commercial mortgages, and equipment leases.
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Date Published :
Jul 18 2008