Many of us have smartphones these days that hold substantial quantities and varieties of data. What happens to that data and how you replace it are two key questions to consider in the event that a mobile telephone is lost.
If you haven’t thought about it much before, why not take a few moments to consider the factors involved and any changes you might want to make to help minimize the stress from such an event.

A short while ago I was reading some poor guy’s blistering rant of how his Drobo died, taking about a terabyte of data with it. It’s a tragic situation,  and your heart goes out to the fellow.  Don’t be that guy! The Drobo is one of the most talked about external storage devices, boasting an amazing ability [...]

Those tiny USB drives we so casually toss about are convenient and easy to lose. Here’s some thoughts on making sure you don’t lose your secrets to strangers. While my family was on vacation over the holidays, I managed to calmly back our rental car into a concrete column in a parking garage, denting the [...]

Do you have an aging machine gathering dust in the corner of your closet? Why not give that machine new life as a Network Attached Storage device, providing a central disk drive that everyone in your house can access. What does this have to do with going paperless? Sooner or later as you go down [...]

I was just reading an article entitled Backup Basics — Or, How to Avoid Using Data Recovery Services! from Dr. Greg Mulhauser’s site. He followed this up with a second article: One Example of a (Hopefully!) Sound Backup Strategy. From the original article: What would you do if all your practice data suddenly disappeared? Data recovery services exist to [...]

Before you shred your first sheet, you must have a solid data backup plan. What would you do if your hard drive started the “click of death” the day after you destroyed the original documents?
This is the first of many articles regarding backups.