Backup

Every building is powered by electricity. This is necessary for seeing what in the World you’re doing and for powering your computer system. Power failure is a major cause of hard drive crashes, and losing documents you were currently working on .Most companies inside buildings have their computer systems tied together with Local Area Networks (LANs). The computers use these networks to talk to each other and then talk to the rest of the world through the Internet. Networks are, for the most part, pretty secure and reliable. Because a downed network doesn’t affect the data on your hard drive much (if at all). Sitting on the networks are lots and lots of computers, big ones, small ones, fast ones, slow ones. Sometimes computers either break immediately upon arrival, one day after their initial warranty is up, or not until they’re well beyond their usefulness. Each computer has one or more storage devices, such as hard drives, Zip drives, CD drives, flash drives, etc. This storage space is where the information lives. Storage devices are rated in “mean time between failure rates”—which means that that it is a certainty that at sometime in the future they are destined for failure. So count on it.     
     
Operating systems hold the software that is the engine of your computer. The Main flavors are Windows (pick a variety from 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, etc), Macintosh (OS 8 through X), and a gazillion flavors of UNIX (Unix, Sun Solaris, Linux etc.). Operating systems—as they’re shipped by the manufacturer — are pretty robust and very reliable. However, once installed, users generally gunk them up with every peace of software they got off the cover of the latest computer magazine, quickly making them less reliable.     
     
Operating systems are also a favorite target for the cretins who write viruses. The good news is that most users have only a single operating system on their computer that they can screw up. Applications (such as Microsoft Word) are the individual productivity tools that each user spends most of their time working on within their computer. My own computer has a few different applications on it, and normally I use about eight of them at a time.     
     
Because applications are what users operate day to day they bear the brunt of a computer’s corruption and loss problems. When users freeze the computer, they’re usually freezing an individual application. When viruses attack a computer, they attack the open (in-use) applications. Therefore, because of outside influences, applications are prone to problems.     
     
Documents are a company’s most-frequently produced asset. Documents are also the usual suspects when it comes to getting into trouble. Documents get corrupted. Get erased. Get all sorts of havoc wreaked upon them.      
     
We can help provide many solutions for your backup needs these are just a few we can assist you with...     

• Backup exec
• NT Backup
• Notons Ghost
• Powerquest’s Drive Image
• File Mirroring
• Backup to External HDD
• DVD/CD

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