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No Back Up Can Be Scary

Thursday October 30, 2008
 Computer Crash Photo by Adam Crowley/Getty Images Friday, October 31st is the third annual Maxell Fall Backup Day. According to a survey by DTI/Price Waterhouse Coopers, 70 percent of small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year. Losing critical computer data in today's Internet Age can wipe out any small business making data backup an essential operational task.

In order to create more awareness, Maxell, the makers of storage media are reminding business owners to back up their systems and key data. "Diligent backup practices are necessary for every person who records and saves digital information,” says Al Dripchak, manager of Maxell. “While a hard drive crash may not cost them their livelihood, it can be equally devastating.”

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November 4, 2008 at 11:53 am
(1) Rafael Montilla says:

we use a dedicate server just for backup, it update every 6 hours, we used to have it in our officce but now we have it in a data center, very secure!!!

November 6, 2008 at 11:12 pm
(2) Rafal Kus says:

Data loss is indeed scary. I had about 50 gigs of design, animation and music on an internal drive. I had to change something inside the PC and the drive smacked and would not boot up afterwords. I lost allot of work. I am hopping that a recovery service can help.

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