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It is a fact of life that all computer hard drives will eventually fail or crash. A recent study by Google found that 8% of computer hard drives will fail within the first two years of operation. That means one in every twelve computer hard drives will crash within the first twenty four months of operation. The risks only increase if your hardware is older.
When your hard drive does eventually fail you risk losing all the information that was stored on your computer. Restoration of a crashed hard drive that has not been properly backed up can be very expensive without guaranteed results of restoring your documents, photos, or other business critical data.
In addition to hardware failure, you may also lose files if your computer is stolen or you accidentally permanently erase important files. In those cases you have no way to restore your files unless you have been consistently backing them up. |
| What is Online Backup? |
| Online file backup is the process of storing the contents of your computer's hard drive, such as documents, photos, or other business critical data, through the Internet. |
| Why should I use Online Backup? |
To understand why you need to use online backup services, consider the reasons why you should backup your data in the first place. The answers are obvious…..to protect against hard disk failures, unintended deletions and other causes of data loss. Online backup services come into the picture in the other causes.
Suppose, by some misfortune, the office is destroyed by fire, earthquake or floods. Misfortunes such as Katrina are not common but they can happen at any place. What would be the result in traditional disk backup? Most people store their backup disk and drives in the same location as the original computer. The result is that the backup disks or hard drives would also be lost along with the original computer in face of the above mentioned catastrophes.
With online backup service, the user typically pays an annual charge for the right to store data online in a secure remote web server. The advantages are obvious. The data is safe in the event of a catastrophe. Even if you ignore the occurrence of a catastrophe, online backup is very useful when traveling. Consider the case that you are going to another city to make a presentation and your computer crashes. In such a case, you would hardly have the time to dash back to your home/office, get the backup and go back to make the presentation. On the other hand, if you had made an online backup of your presentation, then all you have to do is connect to the internet, go to your online backup service provider and download your presentation.
Another scenario in which online backup is useful is computer theft. A large number of computers are stolen every year in the U.S. from the homes of their owners. Chances are that the thief may also carry away your external hard disk drive or CDs in the hope of getting some useful information. The effect on you is that you are left without a computer and the data which you had worked so hard to create. Online backup is the solution to this problem. |
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