Preparing for Computer Disasters

Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 8:07 AM | Category: Business, Life Tips, Meryl's Notes Blog, Tech No comments

Freelance Folder’s How Fast Can You Get Back to Doing Business provides three big events to prepare for:

  1. Replacing the computer ASAP
  2. Setting up software and configuration settings
  3. Getting data back on the machine

Freelancers and small businesses might not give thought to computer disasters, but for clients’ sakes… have a process in place. I’ve had my share of crashes and fortunately such set backs don’t affect my clients. These apply to home computers, too. Here are the things I do:

  • Backup data on a regular basis to an shared storage external hard drive Preparing for Computer Disasters.
  • Run Belarc Advisor on occasion to stay on top of the programs I have.
  • Take a screen shot of my desktop, Outlook, and any other application with lots of interface customization.

What I would like to do:

  • Set up my external drive to do a daily backup of its data to another resource outside of my office.

Plenty of online backup services exist, but they can’t do this (that I know of). And I have to be realistic — I don’t have time to backup the external drive to another drive and take it off site on a daily or weekly basis. Backing up my computer to an online service won’t do since I haven’t found a service that works for me without straining my computer’s resources.

What action do you take on your computer to prepare for the worst?

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