Computer crash and no back-up

It’s every home business owner’s nightmare!  A crashed computer with no back-up. 

A horror story perhaps, but it’s a reality check for the majority of us.  I know that I didn’t use to bother with backing up.  It just took too long and it was an admin chore that I often just forgot about.

I was fortunate.  It was someone else’s computer crash that got me in to action and I now have an automatic online back-up every time I shut my computer down.  I use a guy called Dan Adler who set it all up for me over the phone within the hour and a small monthly fee gives me a daily back-up.

It may be that your ISP provides online back-up so check out BT broadband or who ever you use and see how much and how easy it is to set up. 

But whatever, you do, just make sure you BACK UP!!

Comments

[Jeremy Dent]

Back-up across the Web is almost universal and mostly free. Even Microsoft has now succumbed and understood the business model of giving away stuff for free.

Mine backs up in the wee hours every 24 hours. I have a second tier back-up system, too, in the form of a wireless network hard drive which all five laptops in the house use too.

No excuses!