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Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best

Overview To backup or not to backup, is not the question. Everyone in business today understands the importance of performing periodic backups; however, a good question to ask is if the backups being performed are with disaster prevention in mind? Disaster on a computer system can come in many forms from a corrupt file, to a failed disk, to a fire in the computer room. The one thing to always remember is that a good backup plan should have a contingency for every type of computer problem that can occur.

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Publisher	Thomson	File Format	HTML
Date Published	March 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Back-up, Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure Management

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