Don’t Be a Fool, Just Backup!

March 31 is World Backup Day

Whether youhave information stored on your phone, computer, or server, March 31 has beendeclared World Backup Day to bring awareness of keeping your information safe.For people that already have backups, it’s a great time to make sure that thebackups are working properly, and the data has been verified. We all knowsomeone who has suffered from loss data either from a hard drive that went bad,a ransomware attack, a natural disaster, or even human error. Stop thesuffering by making copies of your information!

What is a 3-2-1Backup Strategy?

A 3-2-1 strategy means you have at least three copies of your data, two of which are local but on different mediums such as hard drives, NAS (Network Attached Storage), or thumb drive and a third off-site backup such as BackBlaze, Spideroak, or CrashPlan. You can even get software that will do all three backups at once. Arq is a great software that is super easy to use, and you can back up to multiple locations at once. You can find their software at arqbackup.com.

Don’tforget to back up your phone! Sometimes backing up your phone is hard toremember to do, but iPhone has made it easy to back up to their iCloud system.It backs up everything, including photos, applications, and text messages. Allthis is done automatically through the Wi-Fi without thinking about it. But ifyou have an Android phone, you can use many cloud services that will store yourinformation such as Google Photos to store all your photos, Google Drive tosave your files, and SMS Backup and Restore for your text messages.

Ifyou are a business and just backing up the server, this may lead to data loss.Most business owners know that it is essential for their server(s) to be backedup. But, what about your computers (desktops, laptops, Macs)? Though it’s truethat quite a bit of your data is stored on your servers and backed up on yournetwork, your computer itself (your icons, your background, all of yoursettings, your local files, music, and pictures you have stored, and all ofyour software applications) is most likely NOT being backed up. If yourcomputer were to crash, get a virus, or simply die, all of that informationcould be lost. The company data that you’ve saved to your server would still bethere IF you are keeping everything to your server (a big if for many people),but everything else would be gone. You would have to recreate that computer byreloading all of the software and settings. And if you’ve ever had this happento you, you know that it can take a significant amount of time to do. What apain!

TechRockstars solves this problem by automatically taking periodic images of yourcomputer.Imaging software takes a“picture” or “snapshot” of your computer, so it records it precisely as it iswith all of the software, settings, and local files you have on it. This way,if your computer ever crashes, there is no need to reload everything onto itand reconfigure the computer. Simply restore your last “image” from before thecrash, and your computer can be back to its old self again. This is a huge timesaver and can be a lifesaver when something goes wrong. Tech Rockstars is offeringthis service free for 30 days as a trial valued at $20/month/desktop. See foryourself how simple it can be to keep your computer data and files safe andsound. You may be amazed by the peace of mind that you find when you arecompletely backed up!

Tech Rockstars Inc. | 850 S. Myrtle Ave., Monrovia, CA 91016 | (626) 533- 1436

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