Each of the stories that follow, is completely factual.
If your clothes dryer, the air blown up, the young couple escaped with their cell phone, her baby son, and a shoe. The house was burnt down in fifteen minutes. She was supporting the family with their home-based business, while her husband tried to work. Your business computer is now part of the ashes and rubble that their home had been.
A talented and creative freelance writer and curriculum developer had no time tograb her computer when she and her husband had to evacuate their house during Southern California's wildfire season. All her current and past projects were lost.
Leaving her laboratory office after a long day working on a grant proposal, the neurobiologist had no idea that when she returned the next morning to review and submit the proposal - due that day - her computer would refuse to boot up. Fortunately, the problem was not the hard drive; even more fortunately, the proposal had been sent to fund the university department for review, and was timely filed.
I've lost so many heartbreaking stories about people with family memories in photo albums and personal correspondence, fires, floods recorded, and one other disasters. In the digital age, many of these treasures are stored on our computers: digital photography began as a computer screen before they are printed and framed, and today most correspondence is handled via e-mail.
People give,albeit reluctantly, that yes, they should return their computers more frequently - or even not at all! Despite my dislike of the word "should", I totally agree. We are really, really back to our computers, on a planned and regular basis!
So what holds us to do that? There are three main reasons.
We may not realize how many resources - financial and medical records, digital images of family and friends, e-mails from college student sons and daughters, and, yes,the all-important business documents! - Are on the disk, whose reliability without saying that we saved.
We do not want to think about unpleasant possibilities, especially when there is no way to avoid such surprises. The young couple blown up, the dryer can surely never dreamed that her house would - or even could! - Burn to the ground quickly.
Many people are confused, by what to do and how to do it at a loss. Even for those who are technically proficientCreate a personal backup and disaster recovery plan ranks only slightly higher than cleaning the bathroom, for the many who find the technology confusing and frightening, cleaning the bathroom in search of fun actually starts out as compared to a backup plan!
The good news is that there is help for planning and for the technology available. The biggest job losses is facing you decide how detailed you want your plan to be - which, as you depend on your valuable data, is for you. There are three primaryAsk.
When you lose everything on your computer tomorrow, what would it mean to you?
There are significant economic, medical and / or financial data on your computer?
Do you know where you are your software CDs and license keys?
If you have answered these questions, you can my backup and disaster recovery (to create the worksheet and then to implement!) Your own plan. (Find the worksheet on my website at http://www.svahaconcepts.com/backups) If you feel the technologyare too overwhelming and not familiar, my fellow coach Beth Lyons (at http://www.techiecoach.com) a technical guru who helps people love to solve technical challenges.
What ever you do, please take - the time to do something. For your own interest and in your family history and memories that have to be so loosely placed on your computer, take the time to define and implement a backup and disaster recovery plan. You'll be glad you did!
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