Check Your Back Up Routine !!!

DIABCO Healthcare Software Solutions - NEWSLETTER

You are responsible for backing up your data

Backing up is one of the most important areas of computing, however, it is one of the most neglected. People in general do not back up, or if they do, they don't do it as often as needed. Backing up your data should be at the top of your computer maintenance list, right next to Virus Protection. Without data backup or virus protection, you are running the risk of losing your data. And it will happen, don't think that you don't have to worry about it. We wanted to inform our clients of this, especially for the ones that our now in Hurricane season.Backing up is extremely necessary.

!!! Back Up Everyday !!!

Data loss can happen in many ways. One of the most common causes is physical failure of the media the data is stored on. You probably have everything saved on your PCs hard drive. That hard drive will not live forever. To quote a friend of mine, "there are only two types of hard drives - the ones that have failed and the ones that will fail." Yes, normally hard drives will live for years without incident. But eventually they will die. It might happen gradually, by more and more bad clusters accumulating until most of the drive is unusable. Or it might happen suddenly, the hard drive just dies without warning.

Another bad storage media are floppy disks. They are good for temporary storage and maybe transporting information, but not for permanent data storage. I've lost count of how many floppies I've tossed because they were bad. And I have talked to countless people who saved valuable data to a floppy only to find out when they needed to access it that the floppy was bad and the data inaccessible. Another possible cause for data loss is power failure or spikes. It can result in loss of the document you are currently working on because you did not save it before the power failed and your PC shut down, or in loss of your entire hard drive because a power surge fried your motherboard and destroyed the file allocation table of your hard drive.

Also worth mentioning, is data loss through virus attacks. There are plenty of nasty computer viruses out there that will delete files on an infected machine. That's why Virus Protection is just as important.

Please note that all clients are responsible for backing up their own data. If you should need assistance, please refer to service desk and complete a service request.

***ALWAYS REMEMBER TO BACK UP YOUR DATA!***