Do yourself a favor, save your files today!

March 31st is celebrated as World Backup Day. It was created to increase our awareness of importance of data preservation.

Whether these are our important documents, files, video, pictures, accounting data, project documentation, research, or others, if we delete them, our hard drives fail, we suffer a flood or fire or other disaster, if we don’t have a copy of these, we lose them.

Pictures of loved ones, old movies etc. can be kept from physical damage if we make a copy of them somewhere else or on the cloud.
It’s not only a device failure that causes problems. Loss of data, quite often, is caused by a simple human error. Did you know, that we have almost lost “Toy Story 2” because someone entered a wrong command, by mistake, on their system? How often, an employee deletes a document by mistake? How often, a disgruntled employee makes mischief before they leave, because they are not very happy with their employer? Cyber criminals often gain access to our data and encrypt them. The only way, to recover your information without paying a ransom is by restoring it from a well-run, properly monitored and checked backup solution that is independent of your internal/ external/cloud drives. This is another way to save a lot of trouble and resources.

There are many solutions for backups and many ways we can go about doing them. Nowadays there is no reason why a business owner would use a USB stick to keep track of changes in their records / documents anymore. They do break and /or go missing quite often. No matter if it is a one person, home run operation or multi office, multilocation, international organization backup is a must. Trying to recreate lost data is difficult, time consuming, costly and, in some cases, impossible. If we use a solution that requires us to manually make a copy, we might forget and when things go wrong, we might suffer a loss. That is why World Backup Day was created – to remind us today to make sure we take a few minutes to save the important stuff either on additional device or, if running a business, invest in a proper backup solution. It may be as inexpensive as $10/per month and it can save you a huge headache!

It only takes a few minutes to call an experienced IT professional to find out what is the best solution to your backup needs. There are a variety of good, reliable, and inexpensive backup solutions available right now and by not using one, you put your business in unnecessary danger of losing money either by having to recreate your data or by paying for data recovery (in some cases we are talking thousands of dollars). While you wait, you are not able to help your own clients or not able to bid on jobs that would generate repeated income for your company.

MiKSMedia offers free consultations to help you in selecting the best type of backup that works for you. So, don’t become an April Fool! Call us today!

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