How to Prepare Your Small Business for a Disaster

There are simple and cheap ways to prepare for catastrophe

By Matthew Bandyk

Posted: September 5, 2008

Always back up. The smarter alternative is to back up all your system files—either through a service that stores your data remotely, or doing it yourself. Paying a service to do it for you is less of a hassle and more stress free. Your backup does not do you much good in a disaster like a fire if your backup burns with the rest of your computer system. But if you have a lot of data, using a storage service can be costly. "It's not unusual to see a business paying $100 a month," says Howes.

It might be a smarter investment, then, to do it yourself—if you do it right. Meehan saves his essential files to CDs, which every night he places in a fireproof safe that's secure inside another safe (combined, the safes give two hours of fire protection).

The price of recovering the data from a broken hard disk really cost a lot.I lost some precious pics of my family in such a disaster.Oops!

Mark Owen of UT @ Sep 16, 2008 22:48:57 PM

Computer Service & Repaire Bissiness

please give me any idias

muktar patel of IN @ Sep 06, 2008 03:19:25 AM

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