We have so many options today when it comes to backing up data and it is hard to image that data backup all started with punch cards in the last century. So how did we get from punch cards to the high-tech options available to the home computer owner?

You can find the answers at THE HISTORY OF BACKUP website. The History of Backup is a website by Maxim Yurin who is one of the masterminds at SoftLogica LLC.

Maxim tells how and when data backup started, what medium was used from the beginning to today and all points in between. The site is an easy-read that is very informative. Everyone in the technology industry should review the site. The History of Backup is also handy for the home user who wants a quick and accurate background in data backup.

Some of the topics covered at The History of Backup are:

• Backup defined
• Punch Card Backups as a Reference Point in Backup History
• Magnetic Tapes and Tape Backup
• The Evolution of Hard Drives and Disk-to-Disk Backup
• Floppy Disks and their Contribution to Backup
• CD-R/RW and DVD - New Backup Media
• Flash Drives and Data Backup
• Blu-ray Disks and HD-DVD - The New Generation of Backup Media
• Network and On-line Backup Solutions

As you can see the site covers data backup quite well. Check it out and enjoy.

Maxim Yurin is employeed by SoftLogica LLC, which is the company that produces top-selling and popular software such as Backup Platinum, Handy Recovery, WAPT, SpamAid, WSOP, WinReminder, and LoadScout

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It happens all the time, hard drives crash without warning. But when someone loses all their data–it is sad.

This last week a graduate student came to our service center with a crashed hard drive. The user had dropped his computer and it would not start back up. The hard drive made clicking and grinding noises as we tried to recovery the data. Sometimes we can recover data using Onetrack software, but not this time because it was a mechanical failure.

The sad part of this story, the user had a lot of valuable data on the hard drive and he did not have any back ups of his data. The computer has a DVD/CD burner. USB keys are inexpensive and external hard drives are very affordable. Still no backups.

The cost of buying an external drive or blank DVDs is nothing compared to the time and effort that went into creating the irreplaceable data.

The user has opted to send the hard drive to Onetrack Data Recovery, where they will try to recover data. This option is very expensive and there is not guarantee that the data can be recovered.

Lesson: Back up your data!

Steps to take:

• Buy and external hard drive and back up your data. Check out this FreeAgent Drive.
• Burn data to CDs and/or DVDs.
• Store data at an off-site location. Store your photos for free at Kodak Gallery.
  

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