Earlier this month Tony Bradley, the About.com guide for Internet and network security, wrote a two-part article about Worst Practices for Backup and Disaster Recovery. Bradley's analysis, and his advice, focus on medium and large businesses, but his points apply to small and home offices as well. 1. Fail to win management support If you're a sole proprietor, then you're the management, so you … [Read more...]

The Small Business Trends blog is running a series of articles on trends for 2006. Guest blogger Ramon Ray contributed his top technology trends just a few days ago. And what should appear on the list but backup, alongside security, CRM, and voice over IP? That's right: data backup."I could write miles of stories about businesses who wished they would have backed up their data only to find it lost … [Read more...]

Yikes! It’s 6:30 AM on Friday, and I just remembered now that I have to write this reminder in time to be at a 9 AM meeting. Just as well I opted for a shorter format a couple of weeks ago.I don’t know whether any of you put making regular backups on your list of New Year’s resolutions—or even whether you make them. I gave up on New Year’s resolutions years ago. They seem designed to be broken, … [Read more...]

The Ur-Guru has created his own automated backup routine to handle his frighteningly large array of computers (including several Virtual Machines). I asked him to describe his weekend backup process, and he said, “They might either jump out the window, fall asleep, or get confused after the first paragraph, I'm afraid. :-)” Well, you might, at that. I find it fairly mind-boggling, myself. … [Read more...]