Why do you need backups? On your computer, all of your data is stored on the hard drive. Hard drive does fail, because it's an electronic mechanical device with plenty of moving parts. All hard drive will eventually fail, it's just a matter of time. When a hard drive fails, the data on the drive most often lost. Even if data recovery is possible on a failed hard drive, it can be extremely cost, in the range of thousands of dollars.

Data backup can protect you from a hard drive failure by making a copy of your data onto another storage device. What kind of data needs backup? Email correspondences, documents, financial data, music, and family photos and videos. If you use your PC or laptop for work, it's even more important to back up the work related data. Businesses have failed from catastrophic data loss in the past.

We'll discuss with you the different options for backing up data, ranging from onsite back to optical disks and hard drives, to offsite backup in a secure location. We highly recommend offsite backup for businesses. This type of back up will protect your data from catastrophic events at your business location such as fire or flood.