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How to get more out of Outlook?
All your mail, your contacts, your calendars, and almost every other detail of your life is in Outlook. To make sure you don't lose all this in case of a hard disk crash or some other disaster, you can create backup copies of your Personal Folders (.pst) files - that's where Outlook stores all the essential data.
Back Up or Copy Your Outlook Mail, Contacts and Other DataTo create a copy of your mail, contacts, calendar and other data in Outlook for backup or copying:
Restore from Your Outlook Backup
Your backup copy of Outlook data is now in place, ready to be restored when you need it.
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It's all about you, our clients!
In these challenging times, we believe that any kind of exposure is helpful to your business. We have, therefore, decided to dedicate this portion of our newsletter as a free service to help promote our clients. To this end, if you would like to promote your services, offer any tips, make any announcements, this is your place to do it!
Just contact Cecile at 818-501-2281
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Greetings!
Because of the disaster in Japan and with the recent flooding here in California (two of clients affected by the last weekend flood), many of our clients are asking us what they can do to protect their businesses from what would be devastating consequences resulting from the loss of data. I have researched this extensively and recommending the following affordable solutions for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity:
Option 1- Barracuda Backup device
http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/backup_overview.php
This unit will back up your server and automatically stores a backup online (in the Cloud). In the case of total disaster (everything has been destroyed, including the Backup device), the company will send you a new backup device already loaded so you can restore your information and you data is available online at anytime.
Barracuda Backup device 190 $1000.00 Plus Tax and shipping (one time cost)
100 Giga Byte of Backup $50 per month
Replacement cost $219 per year
(They provide you a fully functional device with your data in case of a disaster.)
Labor for installation and setup 2-3 hours
Total yearly cost
First year ($1819) following years $ 819/year
Note: It comes with a 30 day free trial. Also, the above suggestion is applicable to most of our clients if the data and its modification and retention exceeds more than 100GB we have to purchase a higher model.
Option 2- Symantec Backup and disaster recovery,
http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/fact_sheets/b-besr_2010_DS.en-us.pdf
Symantec Corporation has come out with the Backup Exec. System Recovery (BESR) as part of backup and disaster recovery for the small businesses. This package is a very valuable augmentation to your existing Backup Exec software that is installed on your server. It takes an image of your server and data and copies it to an External drive. I would recommend a two-drive rotation, where we backup to two separate drives, one stored at home (for example), and the other, at the office. In case of a disaster, the information can be loaded onto another server within a few hours. No online availability, but fast recovery. Your current tape backup does the backup file by file and takes a lot longer to restore you data.
Symantec backup exec recovery for server $455.00 / Server Price may vary depending on the version
Western Digital 2 TB hard drives $195.00
One time implementation cost $280.00
Tax $63.00
Total Cost One time $993.00
We have consulted our insurance company and they say some carriers are making it mandatory to have these devices in place and may give you a discount if you have one. Please consult your insurance co. The ideal situation is to implement both options. Jamshid Javidi, President, CEO Computers and Cecile Bendavid, Newsletter Editor Please call us with any questions. |
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Disaster Recovery
Every business should have a business continuity plan in place.
Not an idea, but a well articulated and detailed course of action to ensure that their business can get through a disaster and continue on in the aftermath. This plan includes crisis management, business procedures/processes and work area management to name a few considerations.
Another important, yet often overlooked part of your business continuity plan is IT disaster recovery (DR). In broad terms, this is how you deal with and prevent IT downtime. Even if every other part of your business continuity plan is executed perfectly, you remain at a standstill if your IT systems go down and stay down. And the situation will only get worse as your revenue and reputation take a beating,
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Basic Personal Emergency Kit
1 Portable Radio w/Batteries
1 Flashlight (w/2-C cell batteries)
12 Alcohol Swabs
1 Emergency Blanket(s)
1 2400 Calorie Food Bars
1 Dried Food
1 Light Stick
2 Hand Warmers
1 Emergency Poncho
10 Plastic Band-aid strips
10 Emergency Drinking Water Pouches
1 Whistles
1 Dust Mask
4 Tissue packs
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Ask the Professor - Cecile Bendavid
Professor of Computer Science - California State University Northridge and Director of New Business Development for CEO Computers.
Disaster Recovery Terms
Business Continuity (BC): Includes planning to ensure the continuity of business critical functions in the event of a major unplanned service failure or disaster-including key aspects such as personnel, facilities, crisis communication, project management and change control. A BC strategy includes a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) for IT related infrastructure recovery.
Disaster Recovery (DR): Part of a larger Business Continuity plan that includes processes and solutions to restore business critical applications, data, hardware, communications (such as networking) and other IT infrastructure. Can also include measures to protect against other unplanned events such as the failure of an individual server or shorter service interruptions.
Mission-critical: Systems or applications that are essential to the functioning of your business and its processes.
Redundancy: Systematically using multiple sources, devices or connections to eliminate single points of failure that could completely stop the flow of information.
High Availability (HA): A system or component that is continuously operational for a desirably long length of time.
Recovery Point Objective (RPO):
The age of files that must be recovered for normal operations to resume if a system goes down as a result of a failure.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO):
The maximum tolerable length of time that a computer, system, network or application can be down after a failure or disaster occurs.
Hotsite:
A DR facility fully equipped with the equipment, network connections and environmental conditions necessary for restoring your data and getting your systems up and running instantly. (unlike coldsites and warmsites, which are not ready to go in an instant)
For more information, call Cecile at CEO Computers at 818 501-2281.
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