By James E. Gaskin
Small Business Tech
Network World
July 17, 2008

Better Ways to Protect your Data

Everyone always worries about backup, backup, backup. Guess what? None of your users, or managers for that matter, care one bit about backup. All they want is restore, and they want it immediately. So shift your focus from backup to restore.

True, this is a bit of a semantic trick, because you only have files to restore if you’ve done a backup. But the type of restoration you plan to do makes a big difference in the type of backup you choose. (Compare Data Backup and Replication products).

There are three types of data restoration, at least for our discussion today. First, you want to restore files to the same computer the files came from. This is the most common restoration, and applies to data files rather than operating system or application program files. Let’s call this personal file restoration.

Second, you may want the ability to restore files to any computer you have, such as …

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