22 December 2008

Are you backing up your data?

Had a scare this week.

Computer failed to boot – screen completely blank!

Feared that the hard drive had got screwed up.
Looked at the option of doing a data recovery from the drive and installing a new hard drive in the machine. Staggered at the current prices – any thing from £450+

Immediately saw that data – or getting it back is more costly than a basic PC.

Eventually got the PC to boot and immediately took a backup of all my data.
Used the CD Read/Writer to create a couple of CD’s – always kept putting it off before. Now I shall do it at least once a month -New Years resolution.

At 75p a disk – that’s much cheaper than £450.

1 comments:

  1. Hi Bob,

    I could not find a way to contact you so thought i would leave a comment here.

    Really enjoyed your recent piece on SaaS and thought you might be interested in a resource i have been working on. It is a video about a middle managers view of ERP systems and the resistance to installing one. Although the video is funny i feel it does highlight some key questions.

    http://www.k3scs.com/the-factory/

    Your thoughts on the video would be much appreciated.

    Thanks

    Mark

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