By Aaron Rodberg (Technical Research Analyst)
Working for Spare Backup I have heard lots of horror stories about lost data. I have seen many happy customers ecstatic to have the ability to restore their precious files when they've been lost or destroyed.
I work full time and have a busy home life with three kids as well. Data is an issue for me at work and at home. Data must travel between my home and office. Like most people in my position I use a laptop, so I can take work home with me and finish projects while I'm at home with my kids. At any time my laptop is susceptible to theft, damage or even failed hardware, or god forbid - the kids spill apple juice all over the thing!
Of course I use Spare Backup to ensure that my data is always recoverable, but I found myself thinking about the question - What is on my computer that I really could not go without?
I have some music I downloaded and paid for, I sure would hate to have to buy that song again. But I guess that is a viable option. My work, i.e., documents, presentations, email, all backed up in the office and online, and I would sure hate to lose any of it but can it be redone, I guess if it had to be.
Then it occurred to me, MY PICTURES. I have 10 GB of pictures all dating back to when my 1st child was born 8 years ago. We are talking about thousands of irreplaceable photographs capturing moments that we can't go back and live again! There is only one first birthday, only one first ballet recital, only one perfect shot of my daughter with her finger deep in her nose to show the high school boyfriends. This to me would be “catastrophic loss of data!”
There is nothing in the world that can be done to ever get those pictures and memories back. It would be a heart breaking loss. That’s why I use a total solution for this irreplaceable data, so not only do I backup my pictures online but I make an offline backup to DVD every month or so using Spare Backup.
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