What Is Your Backup Plan?
Friday, September 14, 2007 Filed in: Media
What happens when you start up your computer and
nothing happens? Your hard drive is dead. What do you
do?
Think about what's on your computer these days. Music, videos, photos, documents, files, email. Truly, the computer, Mac or PC, has become a digital hub.
Hard disks are huge and inexpensive. Many users no longer delete files but keep everything. Search tools are so good that there is little need for file organization. Click "Find" and eventually you'll find what you're looking for.
What's your backup plan? What do you do when your hard disk dies? Think about the scenario for a moment. How do you respond?
Most Mac and PC users have a single hard disk but few back up important files on another computer, or on CDs or DVDs, or, better yet-- another hard disk.
The bad disk scenario should be frightening and cause for concern. A hard disk is a mechanical device and subject to failure. The average life span of a typical PC hard disk is about five years, but many fail long before that.
What is your plan for the moment when your PCs hard disk dies, taking all your files with it. Again, PCs hold music, videos, photos, documents, files, email. Recovering data can be a time consuming and expensive process, yet a backup routine may take only minutes every few days.
I've been saving files on multiple hard disks and networking both Mac and PC for many years. Multiple machines, multiple hard disks, regular backup routine. If my main computer's hard disk dies, I have a set procedure to restore data.
What's your backup plan?
Think about what's on your computer these days. Music, videos, photos, documents, files, email. Truly, the computer, Mac or PC, has become a digital hub.
Hard disks are huge and inexpensive. Many users no longer delete files but keep everything. Search tools are so good that there is little need for file organization. Click "Find" and eventually you'll find what you're looking for.
What's your backup plan? What do you do when your hard disk dies? Think about the scenario for a moment. How do you respond?
Most Mac and PC users have a single hard disk but few back up important files on another computer, or on CDs or DVDs, or, better yet-- another hard disk.
The bad disk scenario should be frightening and cause for concern. A hard disk is a mechanical device and subject to failure. The average life span of a typical PC hard disk is about five years, but many fail long before that.
What is your plan for the moment when your PCs hard disk dies, taking all your files with it. Again, PCs hold music, videos, photos, documents, files, email. Recovering data can be a time consuming and expensive process, yet a backup routine may take only minutes every few days.
I've been saving files on multiple hard disks and networking both Mac and PC for many years. Multiple machines, multiple hard disks, regular backup routine. If my main computer's hard disk dies, I have a set procedure to restore data.
What's your backup plan?
