Floods and Hurricanes
If your tapes are sitting on top of your
computer when a flood suddenly strikes, you will have wasted every
dollar and every minute you ever spent on backups up until that
point.
Hurricane Charley in 2004 and Hurricane Andrew
in 1992 caused massive flooding and destroyed or damaged many homes and
businesses. The cost of data loss was immeasurably high.
When floods strike, they can be quick, unexpected and
absolutely devastating to any business if you do not have flood insurance
(typically not included on most insurance plans). And if your backups
are sitting right on top of the very computer that it was meant to back up,
they more than likely will also go away with the computer itself. It does not
take much water (especially dirty water) to ruin both your hard drive
and the backup tapes or disks.
Unless you have a regular offsite backup solution, floods
and hurricanes have the potential to completely wipe out both your computer and
all its backups. In addition to losing your computer with all the digital data,
floods can easily destroy all the original hard copies of your data also, thus
making re-creation of the data impossible. Once the digital data, the backups
of that data, and the physical data is gone, it is
gone for good. |
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