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Protect your Computer from a Power Surge

If I recall correctly, September and October are the most stormy months in Australia (at least Melbourne anyway). With storms come blackouts. When you are a kid, blackouts are fun, when you are the owner of electronic equipment that is worth a considerable amount or holds very important data, they can be quite risky, painful… Read More…

Posted on July 15, 2011
Category: Power Surge Protection

Is your Business Income Insured?

I liken Insurance to backup. Whilst you can’t insure your data (I did look this up once and some policies gave did indeed give you a small allowance for lost data) you can secure it should the ultimate or even semi ultimate disaster occur by backing it up both locally and offsite. This week’s post… Read More…

Posted on July 9, 2011
Category: Business Insurance

Introducing a Better Way to Backup Your Business

I grew up in a small business family. My father ran a dental practice for 40+ years with my mother at his side managing his administrative needs. Sometimes after school my brother and I would help out with filing (not our favorite thing as a teenagers, but it was needed and we were expected to… Read More…

Posted on July 3, 2011
Category: Carbonite Pro, Small Business

Where is my backup?

I received a pleasant call from a Reseller this week who was enquiring about his wife’s Carbonite subscription. He had purchased a 12 months subscription which expired on May 11 2011. For whatever reason he had missed the renewal messages/reminders and had renewed the subscription a month or so after it had expired. He subsequently… Read More…

Posted on July 1, 2011
Category: Backup Plan, Backup Strategy

Backing up your website

With the events at DistributeIT making news all over Australia and within most news mediums including TV, I thought it would be good time to remind you of how important it is to have a local backup or offsite backup of your website. The hacks on DistributeIT’s ‘Drought’, ‘Hurricane’, ‘Blizzard’ and ‘Cyclone’ servers has meant… Read More…

Posted on June 25, 2011
Category: website backup