I'm often amazed by the lack of backups / disaster recovery that I see at businesses large and small that we deal with.

so here's a challenge....

pretend your PC has been stolen. now see how long it takes to start with a clean Windows install (or other operating system that you use) and get completely back up and running with all your software installed and all your business data set up again and without any data loss.

if you are back up and running in no time, congratulations !

if not, you might want to give some thought to backups.

you can get a 500Gb external disk these days for less than £50 so there's no excuse for not having backups of all your data. and with Vista you can backup your entire PC at the click of a button.

also, just imagine that your office building has burned down overnight.... hopefully you didn't have your backups in there....

Tom

CRM Software, Contact Management Software, Quotes, Invoicing and Billing, Contact Database for Small Business