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It's a sad thing, but we see a regular parade through our service center of people whose computers have died and who have consequently lost files and documents vital to their lives or business.
We see university students with lost theses, on which they have been working for months or years, business professionals who have lost their accounts receivable, and marketing specialists who have lost their contact lists. A lot of the time we can help (see document recovery), but sometimes their computer is beyond even the best of help.
It's not always a computer failure which causes data loss. Sometimes people accidentally delete files, perhaps when they're cleaning up.
To help prevent you getting into that same, unfortunate situation, we can advise on, and help you set up, any of a wide range of backups.
For example:
Off-site backups. What happens if you have been making copies of all of your important files, but keep the copies at the office with your computer, and then there's a fire and everything is destroyed?
Tape backups. Backing up important files, emails and documents has long been done using magnetic tapes. Hundreds of gigabytes can be stored on tapes these days, and automatic backups can be set up so you just have to change the tapes every day or week,
If you only have a small amount of data to preserve, it might be sufficient to do a weekly backup to DVD. This can be very cheap and very easy,
An external hard disk, i.e. a hard disk attached by a cable to the computer, can be a useful way of keeping spare copies of work that you can also carry around with you when you're not in your office.
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