How can you make sure you weather any storm?
by Bridget.Giacinto on May 20, 2016 6:13:05 AM
Natural disasters are events that can happen at the drop of a hat and can occur at virtually any location. While some areas are predisposed to certain scenarios, some threats like fires and flooding exist across the board. However, no matter what type of disaster you may face, it does …
Disaster Recovery Planning for Law Firms
by Bridget.Giacinto on Jan 19, 2016 10:36:51 AM
The legal system encounters thousands of clients a year, all looking for a variety of services. While the flow of business is steady, operations can easily be sidelined by a cyberattack or natural disaster. Law firms should make disaster recovery planning a priority if they want to be …
Why Data Recovery Assistance May Be Critical
by Bridget.Giacinto on Jan 6, 2016 10:15:09 AM
Imagine this: A storm is rolling into your area. Normally, this may not be a big deal, but it's worse than was predicted because tornadoes accompanied it and wiped out your office. While no one wants to think of this type of situation, they are becoming all too common with blizzards, …
How to Develop a Backup and Recovery Plan for Your Small Business
by Bridget.Giacinto on Dec 16, 2015 4:23:14 AM
From a young age, we are taught to be prepared for tests, interviews, weather, and any potential mishaps that may occur. For small businesses, it's especially important to be ready in the event of a natural disaster, a cyberattack, or a hardware malfunction. However, the American Sust …
Can You Take on Data Recovery by Yourself?
by Bridget.Giacinto on Dec 16, 2015 3:36:06 AM
Today's businesses have a lot to be concerned about - not only are cyberattacks occurring at an increasing rate, but disasters can also occur at any time. While we don't want to think that these situations can happen to us, they are becoming a more likely part of our reality for every …
Disaster Recovery Planning for Small Businesses
by Bridget.Giacinto on Oct 2, 2015 10:23:30 AM
Natural disasters, mishaps, viruses and user errors happen more often than you would think. Regardless of how it happens, these types of disasters have the ability to shut down your business for good, if you are not prepared. 74% of organizations have experienced data loss at the work …
How to Create an Image Backup for Full System Disaster Recovery
by Bridget.Giacinto on Jul 13, 2015 4:35:42 PM
Disaster recovery planning should be a part of your overall backup plan. You don't want to be kicking yourself for waiting until after your hard drive crashes or some other disaster strikes to finally learn how to create a backup of your entire system. Instead of taking days to manual …
Bare Metal Restore to Smaller Drive
by Jon Ferraez on Feb 3, 2015 8:20:16 AM
A bare metal restore refers to a technique used to restore an entire system (applications, OS, files) to a blank or "bare metal" hard drive that is free of any applications or operating system. A bare metal restore is often performed by using a disaster recovery image backup created w …
How to do a Bare Metal Restore after a Hard Drive Failure
by Bridget.Giacinto on Sep 30, 2014 1:12:44 PM
The reality is, that hard drives fail and if you do not perform a backup of your hard drive, you could lose your data. A bare metal restore will allow you to restore your hard drive data to a "bare-metal" system, which does not have any software or operating system installed on it. Th …
Bare Metal Restore: How & When to Use It
by Bridget.Giacinto on Sep 18, 2014 11:11:01 AM
Bare metal restore is restoring your entire system (PC or server) from scratch with a completely blank hard drive. It refers to the literal “bare metal” hardware, void of any previously installed software or operating system, as the starting point for recovery. A bare metal restore is …
