Happy Friday everyone. On Tuesday I brought you part 1 of The Consultants Backup Strategy. We discussed Personal backup solutions. Today we are going to talk about office computer backups. Let's start with some facts. According to Carbonite - "97% of laptops that are stolen are never returned." Mozy states "Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States." Those are some horrible odds that your laptop will be stolen, or your hard drive will crash. Backing up should be second nature by now - especially in an office setting. No matter...

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As an Apple Consultant, one of the most important parts of my job is to make sure data is safe and secure. After years of my own data loss, files deleted, and computer crashes I now take my own advice. When I setup clients computers, and servers I always discuss backup with them. There are so many different strategies and customizations involving backup, depending on the scale that's needed. This multi-part blog post will discuss personal backups, office computer backups, server backups and hopefully everything in between. Day 1. Personal backups. Read More

Look, we all know that backing up your data is important.  Yes we've all heard it so many times, and then when things go bad we swear that next time we'll backup.  We want you TO backup your data, and to be extra safe, back it up in more than one place. How? Simple!! If you have any Apple computer running OS X 10.5 or later you have the software already - TIME MACHINE.  Connect an external Hard Drive (either Firewire or USB) and tell Time machine to back up your data.  That's it!  That's all you have to do.  Every hour Time...

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