Good morning,
This week in the ads I see external hard drives abound. A conversation with a customer this week I want to share some information and understanding about “Backup” or what we in the industry call “Disaster Recovery”.
What is a backup? A backup is having 2 or more copies of a file on 2 or more devices. These devices can be an external hard drive, making a copy on a CD or DVD, by burning it, or using a service like www.carbonite.com. Understand one thing the hard drive in your computer and the external hard drive you buy WILL fail at some point. It could be years off, months off or days off, but at some point it will fail. The question is when it does, did you make a copy of it somewhere, not on the failed device?
If you purchase an external hard drive for more room to store files, understand if that is your only copy then you will lose it when the drive fails.
Not everyone is a IT person, but with our lives tied to the digital lifeline we have to be conscious of it so it does not ruin memories.
Merry Christmas to All.