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How To Prevent Data Loss
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How To Prevent Data Loss
Data loss happens for a number of reasons. Anything that is considered
important should exist in AT LEAST two distinct physical locations, meaning
you should have a viable backup of your data. Unfortunately most people
don't commit the time/effort/resources to ensure that a good backup is
in place otherwise data recovery would be unnecessary.
It has become a
major problem over the last few years as more and more digital information
is being stored on media that fails. It’s estimated
that less than 5% of the world’s data and computer information
has actually been backed up. If backups are not done or not done correctly
simple failures can leave you without any data or with the wrong data
all together.
To prevent catastrophic data loss, a routine data backup
that creates a second copy of important data for storage in a different
physical location
must be done. A data backup will not insure 100% recovery; however a
data backup will offer the ability to recover some portion of the lost
data with relative ease. The freshness of the recovered data will depend
on the frequency of your data backup.
To summarize, the following approaches
could be used to prevent data loss:
- Backup, backup and again backup
- Keep up-to-date antivirus software
running
- Update Operating System drivers and patches regularly
- Migrate to
a more stable file system
- Use reliable high-end equipment
- Consider buying UPS to protect system
from power surges
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