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How to Create a Boot Disk for Disaster Recovery

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A boot disk, also know as a boot disc or startup disk, is defined as any digital storage media that contains a small operating system, which allows you to start Windows and execute a utility program, like backup software for example. If your hard disk drive fails, or your operating sy …

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How to Create an Image Backup for Disaster Recovery

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Disaster Recovery image backups create a snapshot of your local hard drive, allowing you to recover your entire computer in the event of a hardware failure, not just your files. Image backups do not need to be performed as often as standard file backups. For most PC users, scheduling …

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What is a Bare Metal Restore?

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Bare metal restore refers to rebuilding a system from a bare metal state (without any OS) in the event of a catastrophe. This type of restore requires you to rebuild your entire system from scratch, including the operating system, software applications, files, settings and system pref …

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Not Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan Could Cost You Everything

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Disaster recovery planning is a very large topic, with just one part being about backing up and recovering your data. To give you a real life example of what I mean by saying that data backup and recovery is just part of an overall disaster recovery plan, I will refer to a recent post …

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