15 Most Common Backup Mistakes

Even though most of us know we need to be backing up our computers many of us either don't or we don't do it regularly or properly. Important data is stored on the hard drives inside our computers and sometimes hard drives fail and cause loss of that data.

Businesses know that data on their computers represent hours of data entry and staff time. Computers are an important part of day-to-day operations, but it's not always easy to know how to backup or to avoid the risk that data loss exposes them to. More increasingly, even homes and individuals have important data such as financial records, pictures, video and online communication that they can't afford to lose.

Its really too late to wait until a repair to find out what you might be doing wrong when performing backups. Lets look at some of the 15 most common mistakes so we can learn how to avoid them and costly computer repairs.

Backup and Data Services

Hard Disk Data Recovery Often times data can be recovered depending on how severe the damage is. The safest thing to do is shut the computer down right away and call us. We can give you advice as to how we need to proceed and what the outcome might be.

RAID Data RecoveryRAID arrays are suppose to protect you from data loss, however sometimes they don't. What if you lose two drives at once? Again, the quicker you call us the faster a qualified technician can evaluate the damage that has been done and the better the outcome is sure to be.

Backup Assessment and PlanningCall us before you have a system failure. We provide services to assess your current backup system and the associated risk factors. We'll help you come up with a plan to address these risks to keep a system failure from causing you to lose valuable data.