How to Create Your Server Backup
Sooner or later, your server-for all intents and purposes, that means your computer’s hard drive-will have some kind of failure. It’s inevitable, like death and taxes. Although this is not something that happens often, when it does happen it’s a disaster-unless you have been wise and created a server backup.
Creating a server backup is possible by various means. Simplest of these is manually copying all the necessary and important data on to some other storage media like CDs or DVDs. Most computers today support these functions. Having done that, you can stay relaxed and comfortable, knowing your data is safe.
Using an external hard drive is the second option available for backing up your server. As the name explains, an external hard drive is used outside of the complete computer system and is plugged in whenever necessary. Usually used as an extra memory storage unit, this is connected to your computer via USB or Firewire capabilities. With this option, you know your data is safe and securely stored in a physically separate location and can be retrieved at any necessary time.
Setting up a RAID system is ideal as a backup course for your business-related data. RAID stands for redundant array of independent disks (the “I” used to be for “inexpensive”, but was replaced after every computer accessory price was lowered.) A RAID system uses a number of hard drives simultaneously and each of these disks stores all of the data from your computer. It’s a foolproof system for securing data, because even if one drive fails, the remaining drives still contain all the necessary files.
Another excellent option for businesses is to pay a company to store your data online-yes, on the Net, in the same way that your Yahoo bookmarks and Google documents & spreadsheets are stored online. The fees for this are inexpensive.
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