We’ve all lost data. If you haven’t lost it, you will. Computers and technology teach us new lessons in the fleeting nature of information. Beyond the zen lessons that the impermanent nature of digital data can teach us, there’s something you can do about it now to protect your investment and your data.
This week, we had the opportunity to see the practical use of one of the many backup tools on the market today. A client came into the office where I work with a failing hard drive. His hard drive was more than failed, it was making the dreaded clunking sound that most IT professionals recognize as the funeral dirge of a hard drive that has gone on to its reward.
There was an option to send the failed drives off to a data recovery service that would extract the platters and get the data for the minimal cost of about $2,000. Fortunately for the client, his brother had convinced him to use a backup solution from Acronis.
The Acronis backup not only recovered his data, it essentially put his entire operating system, software, settings, and data on the new hard drive and the computer ran exactly as it had a week earlier (when the system was last backed up). This is pretty impressive.
So maybe for those who have not been through a whole system crash, you’re thinking “so what.” The reality is that although most folks think that protecting the data is the end of the story, many are not aware of the time and effort it takes to rebuild a computer with all it’s operating system, software, associated patches and updates, and personal settings. Getting all of these back in working order, can easily cost close to the expense of a new computer from a big box store.
If you haven’t got a data backup and disaster recover software in place, consider taking care of it right now. Check out the Acronis website for the tool that’s right for you.
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