One More Reason To BACKUP

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  • Profile picture of the author ThomM
    I laughed my butt off reading this guys comment.
    that will forever affect how I view trusting an anonymous server farm somewhere with my critical or even not-so-critical data."
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      • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
        Originally Posted by RandyChrist View Post

        Will give you few Data Loss Statistics....

        * 30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year. 70% fail within five years. (Source: Home Office Computing Magazine)

        * 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately.
        (Source: National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)

        * American business lost more than $7.6 billion as a result of viruses during first six months of 1999. (Source: Research by Computer Economics)

        * Companies that aren't able to resume operations within ten days (of a disaster hit) are not likely to survive. (Source: Strategic Research Institute)

        Do you need any more reason to backup your data?
        And lemme guess, we should use SOS backup right?
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        • Profile picture of the author ThomM
          Sumit I rarely say this about anyone but myself.
          You son have a firm grasp of the obvious
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