September to be ‘Backup Awareness Month’ in the UK During backup month, Maxtor will be supporting its retail partners by providing them with extensive point of sale (POS) informational material to raise awareness on the shop floor of the importance of data backup. Not only is Maxtor offering information, it is also giving away one Maxtor OneTouch II drive every day on www.backupawareness.com As part of the campaign, Maxtor is promoting a five-step ‘best practices’ programme for basic protection: 1. Develop a backup schedule - backup data daily or at minimum weekly. 2. Backup everything - today users can easily backup all of their computer hard drive data. No need to spend time sorting through every file or folder. Invest in a storage solution that's twice the size of your internal hard drive to give your system room to grow. 3. Do it automatically - set it and forget it. Use a solution that's easy to set up and provides automatic backups. 4. Rotate backups - give added protection in case of fire, flood, or theft. Use two drives and rotate one offsite. 5. Don't procrastinate - unfortunately, the need to backup data is often a lesson learned from an unfortunate experience.
•Date: 23rd August 2005 • Region: UK • Type:
Article •Topic: IT continuity |
