Imagine this scenario-
You are driving to work as you do every day, you have your laptop bag in the back seat of your car. For some reason, the drive through at your frequented Tim Hortons is packed; you decide to run inside to get your coffee, it is not your normal routine and you forget to lock your vehicle.
You wait in line, get your daily dose of caffeine and make your way out to the car. You realize that you forgot to lock up before going inside but hop in the driver’s seat and think nothing of it, that is until you glance back and realize your bag is gone!
Vanished, disappeared; no doubt the work of a thief who preys on the unsuspecting, the ones who actually work for a living. Your computer is gone, in it: the project you have been working on for weeks, pictures of your newborn child and videos of your destination wedding in Cuba.
You don’t have a regular backup plan, so weeks of work and all those memories are sadly, lost forever.
The Short Version-
With today’s technology and the ever increasing reliance on it, we are seeing more and more people who store everything digitally. Gone are the days of having stacks of photo albums or accountants boxes full of files, a small spinning disk (known as the Hard Drive) now replaces the need for cumbersome boxes and storage cabinets.
As convenient as this may be, it introduces new problems. Hardware failure (crashes), theft and the dreaded coffee spill are now bigger worries than ever when thinking about the safety of our data.
How can we protect ourselves?
Redundancy.
In the technological world, redundancy means having multiple copies of everything; we do this through making sure that we have current backups stored in separate locations.
The best practice for backups is to backup daily and have this backup copied to a protected onsite location or an offsite location, and to a virtual location. (Cloud storage)
Ensuring that these measures are in place will effectively give you three separate copies of your data, it will give you the redundancy necessary to trust that your files, memories and projects will be there; even in the worst case scenario.
Call Gannon Computer and Consulting today to make sure you have all the needed measures in place to keep your information safe!
