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Monday 9 July 2012

Be Aware With Your Data While Backing Up

Everybody should be very careful while backing up your data. Your data is your work property. Just imagine if you lost your data, there could be lot of loss of your work or business. Even you could lose your customer’s list or probably data too. Always keep some point in mind while taking back up of important data.

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1.Totally depend on redundant disks:
It’s wise decision of using redundant disks. Disk arrangement using RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) 1, 5 and 6 can continue to work if a drive fails. But it is also possible that all drives can fail at a time due to power surge or defective controller. Or Data can corrupt or can delete accidentally. Therefore it’s not sufficient to rely only on redundant disks.

2.Depend only on online media:
Suppose you are backing up your data on external chips or drives. But you have to be careful to disconnect the drive and move it another location. If you keep the drive connected, it can be possible that your data can be erasing due to virus entrance in your system or hacker hacks your system, you might lose your data. Therefore it’s good habit to backup and remove your hard disk or external drives and keep it away from your system to another location.

3.Keeping all backups online:
Backing up data online is not bad idea. Your data can be safe with online sites. But just think that sometimes that site or service provider can go through an accident of fire. And lost all their stored data, then what? Obviously you also lose your data and off course will hamper your business too. Therefore always be careful while keeping your data online. Always Keep it on different site and make its multiple copies.

4.Testing your backups:
You back up your data to prevent from loss and can restore it whenever needed. But have you ever tested to restore it? Whenever you back up your data first time, always be sure that you can restore your data properly and correctly. So that you can know that you are following correct path and doing correct way. Always keep habit to check your back up data.

5.Keep you data at multiple places:
There are various methods to take back up of your data. All methods are good at their level. But there could be some disadvantages to the methods. To keep your data safe always keep it using different methods. Make multiple copies of your data. So that if one occur problem then you can at least restore it from another location.

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