San Jose Earthquake - What does this have to do with my computer?

Is your computer a Halloween "trick or a treat"?

The Fires in San Diego and the 5.6 magnitude earthquake in The Bay Area should remind us to preform regular back-ups of our disk drives.

I am a big believer of creating a disk image as it is not only the data that you should be concerned with but the operating system and the application programs that are also stored on disk. Consider the time and expense of reloading your computer with windows, your virus scanner, programs, all of your program preferences, your shortcuts, as well as the data. It could take 1-2 days full time to get back to the pre-disk crash status.

Coincidentally my daughter just had a disk crash it took her:

• Lost the use of her computer for 2 weeks
• Looked for the original recovery disks (4 hours no luck)
• Took 4 hours to reload data (at least she had a back up of the data!)
• Took 4 trips to the compute store for warranty repair (disk replacement)

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• What software to use
• Back up media
• Back-up strategy (RAID, external disk drives, use your second computer etc.)