Only required business applications running on the PC's and laptops are Outlook, and full office suite. Pop into PC world and be up and running in no time
No business data is stored on any PC or laptop, everything is accessed via the LAN, and our office servers.
File, Exchange and Intranet servers backed up daily to an extenal USB drive, and then a nightly incremental backup to an off site server. Slow, but runs through the night, so doesn't matter.
By the same token, as we live in a digital age, I now keep all personal data, photos, music etc on a home server, and that backs up incrementally to the office
Most of us have growing digital photo or video collections, do you back this priceless data up? No point having a stack of CDR's with your photo's on next to your PC if your house goes up in smoke while your on your hol's!!
How many times in my IT days did I see the collection of backup tapes sat next to the file server it was backing up
Very good point though Tom, and hopefully this thread makes a few people have a little think.
Put a Disaster Recovery plan in place now, and save yourself a lot of heart ache and possibly your business!