Real SMB IT: Hardware And That Damn Morning Coffee
October 23, 2009
Let me paint a picture of two scenarios here, if they have not happened to you yet, buy a lottery ticket, because sooner or later, they will!
Scenario Number 1!
It is too early in the morning, but you manage to pour yourself that coffee, sit down at your desk, and promptly spill that coffee all over your notebook keyboard.
Scenario Number 2!
It is still too early in the morning, you still manage to pour yourself that coffee, power up your computer…. and meet;
a) a black screen
b) a blue screen saying something along the lines of BOOT ERROR KERNEL FAULT IN MPORTDRV.SYS
c) Maniacal laughter as your PC grinds to a digital halt
OK, so number three was exaggerated, but the first two were not!
As an owner or manager of a smaller business, I am sure that your technology service provider set up a server for you. They probably handed some backup tapes to whom ever is sitting closest to the server as well!
But are you actually using that server?
Or are those proposals, invoices, and reports just sitting on each persons computer or notebook?
uh huh??
You probably have most of them on your machine right?
The SMB Takeaway
Your Tech Services provider may have set up your server to back up all your data, but most likely they did not set it up to back up data on every individuals personal computer!
And if your data is not on that server when the coffee meets the notebook keyboard….
Good luck with any data recovery.
Even if you travel a lot and absolutely need your data, every few days make sure that you at least make a copy of it on your server. If your machine dies, at least you have something!
An ounce of prevention….
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