What if one day all of your data was totally gone? Many places would simply go out of business. Backups are cheap insurance, but insurance won’t help you if you get the wrong policy!

What most people don’t realize, and too many computer technicians ignore, is that how you backup your data is a business decision and has very little to do with technology. The technology doesn’t factor in until the very end of the decision making process! There are five questions you must answer that will dictate how you backup, and you’ll notice that only the last question is a technology question. (more…)