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Executive/Personal Back Up |
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August 2007 |
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The heading does not refer to having someone to back you up when you go on holidays. It refers to backing up the most valuable asset of your personal business asset- the data and files that you have collected or created in the course of doing business. Most executives carry a laptop these days. Laptops still use the standard type of hard disk which is based on electro-mechanical and magnetic technologies. A hard disk is like the phonograph that our seniors played their music with in the 50s or 60s of the last century. Imagine carrying the phonograph on the road and running in on the go. The read/write head (stylus of the phonograph) can crash onto the plate easily as they are only nanometers apart (touching for phonograph). A bang on the table will surely hurt if not kill the hard disk if your laptop is running at that time. How often did your laptop hard disk die in the past? What is the consequence if you lost the hard disk? The answer is Back Up your data and files. Your laptop supplier can repair the hardware and can re-install the application software. If the hard disk is dead, they cannot recover your data if you do not have a back up copy. There are many ways of backing up data and files. The most common one is to use USB thumb drives that are as large as 4GB these days. Another way is to burn CD or even DVD as DVD has 5GB of capacity. However, how much time is the back up process and how often do you do it? We have come across a new approach recently. It is fast and can be scheduled. It is also an assisted process and can be said as automatic. More importantly, the back up copy is ENCRYPTED and only you can decrypt it to see it. If you wish to learn more about this, email
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