If you failed to backup your computer and it died. Would you pay big bucks to restore that data from your hard drive? Depending on what you have on it but I’d say if your whole business is on it, you’d probably think seriously about it.

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Here’s the thing that many don’t realize about data recovery. It’s not guaranteed to restore 100% of your data. Now I must be truthful and qualify that statement. It all depends on how bad a shape your hard drive is in. Sometimes you get lucky and only your computer is fried. Which means you can simply pop the hard drive into an external hard drive enclosure and grab your data from another computer. Yup! I can be that simple.

Sometimes we aren’t that lucky and your hard drive may have been damaged. That is not so simple and recovery at that point can get super expensive. If the damage is extensive, you may only get a partial recovery 🙁

So what’s my point? Backup and backup again. Have at least two sets. One in home – it can be external drive or network attached storage and another set of backups offline like Mozy. It really is the best solution to keeping all of your data.