Data backup is a must do activity, if you think your data is unique and precious. Home computer users can ignore this safety belt and get away lightly with minor injuries, but this cannot be said of corporate entities.The storage size of the hard disk commercially available today is many times bigger than its predecessor. So, even the most devout of backup takers relax their backup schedules, a wee bit, since fault tolerance levels are presumed to be of a wider margin. In a flash, the gremlins strike at your data. However, due to regularity in taking a backup, mass data casualties are avoided and the data is soon recreated, with the least effort.Some of us are smug in the thought that the computer is chugging away fine and the computer may be relatively new. For many home computer users, it is ingrained in their psyche that the heavens are not going to fall, if data is lost. After all, backing up the latest chartbuster does not make much sense, does it? Yet many of them do not realise that text correspondences, digital camera or video images (which are no longer available in the inbuilt memory of the device) can be forever lost, if backups are not taken. There is also the varying element of laziness and boredom in repetitive backup routines (especially if it involves more than a single command or some special coding). However, since many a computer user has been bitten by data loss, they are now votaries of timely backups. Imagine the situation of a bank or a reservation system where everything is online with mounds of transactions at any given point of time, across branches and geographical barriers, and they do not have a minute by minute backup! Think of the utter helplessness and the economic impact on the balance sheet of the bank or the company, if they were to lose 5 minutes of data. Imagine a situation involving the same bank or reservation system, where they are taking backups every second and storing it away in the same premises. Nobody checks to see if the media used for the backup are reliable. A fire occurs. An employee heroically rescues the data discs, only to discover later that the data discs are unreadable! Who would want to spend time, money and effort in recovering data, when the backup is within reach? Even a novice would agree that the current software available in the market makes the process of backing up data, a no-brain and painless task. The popular operating systems carry it as an inbuilt option that can be automatically scheduled in various ways.Okay, the data loss has occurred. As per the Doing things right manual, it is too risky to try and recover the data using a home-grown solution. You drag yourself to the data recovery experts door. The defaulting hard disk is examined and your data is loaded onto a fresh hard disk and you pay the hefty bill. On going through the recovered data, you notice information gaps or funny symbols in your data. This represents the unrecoverable data or formatting errors. You are driven to your wits end if the missing gaps represent crucial data. Your boss screams Are you so busy that you cannot even spare a minute to take a backup of your data? You will be held responsible if the data affects the company. You better start praying. You mentally retort: Why are you focusing on the data loss now, when you should have had a systematic backup plan in place. In most organizations, backing up of data is a ritual and they do not take chances with their data. Not having a backup plan or proper backups is viewed akin to sabotage. One mans carelessness is going to shut down operations of the company for a long time and everybody else is going to individually suffer. If only the guy had stuck to the backup schedule.Data backups are like the bulbs in your car headlamps. You carry them around like an appendage, though you do not require the use of headlamps until nightfall. In the darkness of the night, a working bulb or a fused one can surely spell the difference between making it home safely or not. Clone that data and you can ensure that it is not a cause for your downfall.About AuthorJames Walsh is a freelance writer and copy editor. For more information on computer crime and Computer Forensics see http://www.fieldsassociates.co.uk Source: ArticleTrader.com
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