Avoiding Catastrophe When Your Computer Crashes

Well, A week has passed and my head is out of the fog. I'm starting to realize how lucky I really was. I recovered all the 'important data' from my crashed hard drive, mainly because I lucked-out and went to one of the few (very few) data recovery places in the country. How was I to know that there was a difference between a computer tech advertising a data recovery service - and a data recovery lab. Other than the fact that both charge the same, one can recover your data, and one can recover all the 'uncorrupted data' on your hard drive.

Okay - so I believed I had dual hard drives. I checked my invoice and I did pay enough for dual hard drives. Instead, I got one, partitioned, hard drive. So, when one partition crashed - so did the other.

I am a little smarter now. I knew that the best defence was a new computer - I update mine every 3 years. I need to have a good back up in place - I 'thought' I did. But, I did learn that I could save everything on my server.

I never thought of that. Most of us at communati have web businesses that use tons of web server space - so why not FTP your hard drive to your server?

We've discussed back ups, USB data transfer disks (which can corrupt, too), second hard drives, and DVDs. I do the DVD thing - but honestly, I don't even back up my websites on my hard drive - and I have more than 5 meg of data on two computers. That means that I am burning 1 full DVD a week.

The problem with that is the time needed to restore the data. It took me almost 2 days to reset all of my browser tool bars (hate furl - love stumble), and rebuild my saved passwords to blogs and 'stuff.'

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