Data Recovery Lessons Learned After California Wildfires

It wasn’t just homes, offices and personal property that went up in smoke as wild fires in October and November swept through a number of communities in Southern California – computers containing terabyte after terabyte of priceless data and information were lost as well.

A recent story in the San Diego Union Tribune, entitled “After The Fire: Saving Data” written by the paper’s technology editor, Suzanne Choney, describes the effects of the fire on data saved on both home and business PCs, how many people lost critical computer data and how others protected theirs.

The experts quoted in the story provide a series of simple tips for small business owners and home users to help protect data against future loss. They advise:

Back up important data regularly
After backing up, verify periodically that the material re-saved is not corrupted
Keep backed-up material, whether on Zip Disk, CD or portable hard drive, in another location.

The full story can be found at the following URL:
www.signonsandiego.com/news/fires/20031103-9999_mz1b3data.html