During the last quarter of 2007, I was on vacation in California when I received a call stating that our servers at work had crashed and the redundant machines that were supposed to pick up when the others had failed, had failed as well.   It took the whole company one week to get things back to normal.   People with little or no sleep will work around the clock to ensure that data is flowing and that the workers could come and process the data and get shipments moving.  It could have been worse.  We could have lost all our data.

It is interesting to note that this has happened to our company before.  It was back in 1989 when a lightning struck our corporate building which affected our server that stored our accounting data.  All of the financial data was lost and couldn’t be recovered because the head of our I.T. didn’t plan for one.  He wanted to save the company some cash when in the long run, the company had to settle all accounts by what amount our clients told us they owed.  A pretty hefty loss.

Now we are bombarded with information.  Even my PC runs out of memory easily combined with junk and useful information.  I try to make it a point to delete junk files and back up the files that I need on CDs or DVDs.  I wanted to find out how I could back up without deleting important files when I ran across this website:   http://www.backuphistory.com .  Similar to any other technology, we’ve come a long way.  From punch cards, to magnetic tape, to floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, flash drives and now to Blueray HD-DVDs.

We get bombarded with information daily.  We need to keep most but not all.  The smartest way is to create a back up of the data on a schedule.  Once a week, once a month or every two months is fine as long as you make it a practice.  As a blogger, your content is important to not only yourself but your readers as well.  Your hosting company should provide this service as a courtesy and you should speak to them about it.  Losing data is not fun.

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