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Sooner or later, your server-for all intents and purposes, that means your computer’s hard drive-will have some kind of failure. It’s inevitable, like death and taxes. Although this is not something that happens often, when it does happen it’s a disaster-unless you have been wise and created a server backup.

Creating a server backup is possible by various means. Simplest of these is manually copying all the necessary and important data on to some other storage media like CDs or DVDs. Most computers today support these functions. Having done that, you can stay relaxed and comfortable, knowing your data is safe.

Another option for server backup is the use of an external hard drive. This device is exactly what it sounds like: it is another hard drive, that plugs into your PC or Mac via a USB or Firewire, and contains all of the data that you choose to send to it from your computer-but in a physically separate location, so that when your computer’s hard drive goes kaplooie, your data remain safe and secure in the external hard drive.

For businesses another good option is RAID, or redundant array of independent disks. RAID works by storing backups of all your data on multiple disks, giving you added multiple levels of safety. Even if one or more disks crash, there are others to safeguard your data.

Another excellent option for businesses is to pay a company to store your data online-yes, on the Net, in the same way that your Yahoo bookmarks and Google documents & spreadsheets are stored online. The fees for this are inexpensive.

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