We've moved from an age where our most important documents are no longer stored on the hand written or even the computer printed page.

Back up is a bread and butter question, put simply if you don?t back up you could end up out of business. Yet many people choose to ignore it, despite understanding the risk of losing everything, because it?s easy to do so. Even a good backup policy is no good if it is forgotten or not properly carried out.

Backup, backup, backups! If there's one thing I've learned in 20 years and 12,000 data recoveries, it's that everybody doesn't back up their data sometimes. Computers may be dumb, but they know when you don't have your data backed up – because THAT's when they break. Don't let your computer fool you – back up new data daily.

With so many data recovery software options to choose from, it is easy for one to be lulled into a false sense of security- that if needed one will be able to find the perfect data recovery software that will return their PC back to its original state. Further to this, that your backups will be the fallback if all else fails. Without devising a backup strategy or ?backup workflow

To be precise, the phrase ?data recovery? refers to the process whereby data is saved from storage media that has either been corrupted, damaged, failed, or made inaccessible for some reason

On Tuesday March 20th, 2007, the Associated Press reported a computer tech wiped out $38 billion dollars of account data for Alaska's Department of Revenue. The article reported that it would cost about $200,000 to re-key the data from their paper backups in over 300 boxes. This story is not uncommon, and data loss could cost more: it can put you out of business