Looking After Your Assets

 

It is easy to think of your most visually exciting business assets – the shiny new tractor or the glass fronted barn conversion.

Don’t forget to look after the less exciting data held on your office computer. You insure your equipment, buildings and contents for accidental damage, fire and theft but what about the hard drive on your computer? Your hard drive is a moving mechanism recording data onto magnetic media, so is susceptible to break down too.

‘Back up’ is a word guaranteed to send most people to sleep but data loss can and does happen. It only takes a power cut or ‘spike’ to destroy your hard drive, or as happened to a client of ours this year, an office fire to wipe out accounts and property data, a database and more.  Think how long it would take to accumulate not only your business data but email addresses, spreadsheets and letters.    

We recommend a simple online off-site Data Backup service to give the best belt and braces approach. Memory sticks and external hard drives are of course invaluable but they are fragile and often kept on-site.         

By paying a small monthly fee, from £12/month, your data can be stored on a staged backup system for a rolling 30 days in the UK. Only you can retrieve data which can be restored to any machine with Windows XP and broadband and technical assistance is available 24/7.   

Ralph Castle, an Oxfordshire farmer, has recently installed Landmark’s Data Backup: “In a recent power cut I lost everything. It always happens when you are at your most busy – my down-time during harvest doesn’t bear thinking about and now I want to be 100% sure that I can re-load everything from a specific date and an off-site source.”    
 

 

Published on: Tuesday, 27th September 2011

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