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Digg it UP - Are You Still Not Backing Up Your Data?
Do you start your day at the workplace at full steam? When you get to your workplace do you have a dozen phone calls and emails to reply to? If you do, how many of those correspondences are business related that generate revenue? How many are new sales leads? Are most of your daily correspondences sales related or are they personal in nature? In other words, how much of your time is spent on critical core business activities?Before I go on, let me tell you about my self and where I'm coming from that I can talk about this subject. I own and operate an executive office suite. My company rents office spaces and private workspaces (desks). We also provide virtual office services to clients ranging from individual professionals to multi-billion dollar companies and everyone in between. I get to talk to a l
Most backup programs allow you to back up the Registry automatically. If not, you can easily do it manually. Here's how:
Click Start > Run.
In the box, enter "regedit" (without the quotes). Click OK.
In the Registry, click File > Export (or Registry > Export Registry File in Windows 98). Navigate to your backup medium. It will probably be drive E:.
Name the file an
How far does your service go? And how much farther can you stretch it?If you serve customers, do you stretch to do it better every day? Are you eager to learn from colleagues and mentors, seminars, books, websites, and a healthy dose of candid customer feedback?If you provide internal service, do you reach across functional lines, or stay stuck inside your departmental 'silo'? Is your communication with colleagues and partners positive, proactive and persistent?If you serve in your community, do you volunteer time and stretch a little more by asking others to join you?If you serve your family, do you reach out with a higher level of attention and affection every day?If you serve the planet, are you ecologically aware? Do your actions inspire and educate the neighbors?If y
You should know this by now: Computers can and do fail. And nasty viruses can take down your system by creeping through your antivirus software and firewall.
The problem is that you usually get no warning before it's too late.
This has happened to many. In extreme cases, it has put companies out of business. And the worst part is this: It's completely avoidable. By backing up your data, you can retrieve all or most of what you lose.
Yes, there is a hassle involved. But you owe it to yourself and your business to take stock of your backup business plan (or lack thereof) by reviewing these tips.
Most Important: Back up Your Customer Databases and Payroll Records
What's the heart and soul of your company? People have different opinions, but certainly your customer or client database has to rank high.
Inside one or two data files are all the nitty-gritty details including what they buy, when they buy, how they pay and so forth. Contact lists also are databases, and you might have yours combined with your customer list.
So, where would you be if you lost your database? How would you feel if you attempted to open your database and it wasn't there? Not good, I'll bet. So you should be backing up.
Also mission-critical for backups are your employee payroll records. You don't want to lose the information that you have to report to the tax department. Your employees don't want problems with them either. And they certainly don't want to be paid late.
Protect Your Registry Settings
You should be backing up all of your data. But if you don't, a third item you should have high on your priority list for regular backups is your Windows Registry. This is the huge database that tells your computer how to run. Without it, you have an expensive paperweight.
Most backup programs allow you to back up the Registry automatically. If not, you can easily do it manually. Here's how:
Click Start > Run.
In the box, enter "regedit" (without the quotes). Click OK.
In the Registry, click File > Export (or Registry > Export Registry File in Windows 98). Navigate to your backup medium. It will probably be drive E:.
Name the file and
Motivation is a set of processes that determine individual choices. These processes are influences from families and friends that we receive throughout our life. When speaking with business owners it is clear that they are self motivated and determined to succeed. How did they reach this point and maybe you have not? It is the result of the interaction of your internalized needs and the external influences you receive.Past experience sways our thinking. Most people who plan to be entrepreneurs have developed a physiological or psychological need. The person then develops a set of behaviors to satisfy this need. The behavior then results in action toward the goal. At some point in their life, they have been exposed to positive self esteem types of people. They appreciate and can accomplish hard work through
Yes, there is a hassle involved. But you owe it to yourself and your business to take stock of your backup business plan (or lack thereof) by reviewing these tips.
Most Important: Back up Your Customer Databases and Payroll Records
What's the heart and soul of your company? People have different opinions, but certainly your customer or client database has to rank high.
Inside one or two data files are all the nitty-gritty details including what they buy, when they buy, how they pay and so forth. Contact lists also are databases, and you might have yours combined with your customer list.
So, where would you be if you lost your database? How would you feel if you attempted to open your database and it wasn't there? Not good, I'll bet. So you should be backing up.
Also mission-critical for backups are your employee payroll records. You don't want to lose the information that you have to report to the tax department. Your employees don't want problems with them either. And they certainly don't want to be paid late.
Protect Your Registry Settings
You should be backing up all of your data. But if you don't, a third item you should have high on your priority list for regular backups is your Windows Registry. This is the huge database that tells your computer how to run. Without it, you have an expensive paperweight.
Most backup programs allow you to back up the Registry automatically. If not, you can easily do it manually. Here's how:
Click Start > Run.
In the box, enter "regedit" (without the quotes). Click OK.
In the Registry, click File > Export (or Registry > Export Registry File in Windows 98). Navigate to your backup medium. It will probably be drive E:.
Name the file an
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Inside one or two data files are all the nitty-gritty details including what they buy, when they buy, how they pay and so forth. Contact lists also are databases, and you might have yours combined with your customer list.
So, where would you be if you lost your database? How would you feel if you attempted to open your database and it wasn't there? Not good, I'll bet. So you should be backing up.
Also mission-critical for backups are your employee payroll records. You don't want to lose the information that you have to report to the tax department. Your employees don't want problems with them either. And they certainly don't want to be paid late.
Protect Your Registry Settings
You should be backing up all of your data. But if you don't, a third item you should have high on your priority list for regular backups is your Windows Registry. This is the huge database that tells your computer how to run. Without it, you have an expensive paperweight.
Most backup programs allow you to back up the Registry automatically. If not, you can easily do it manually. Here's how:
Click Start > Run.
In the box, enter "regedit" (without the quotes). Click OK.
In the Registry, click File > Export (or Registry > Export Registry File in Windows 98). Navigate to your backup medium. It will probably be drive E:.
Name the file an
While diversity is a problem to most organizations, successful corporations learn to manage to their full advantage. By adopting new structure and work practices that are radically different from those traditional minded management, these organizations managed to acquire a competitive advantage in the global market place. The whole purpose of managing diversity is to bring out the best of employees Talent, Abilities, Skills and Knowledge for the benefits of individual employees as well as the well-being of the corporations. When workforce diversity is well managed, no employee in the organization feels disadvantaged.Business firms are beginning to recognize the power of workforce diversity as a competitive tool. Cascio in his book 'Managing Human Resource: Productivity, Quality of Work life, Profitskups are your employee payroll records. You don't want to lose the information that you have to report to the tax department. Your employees don't want problems with them either. And they certainly don't want to be paid late.
Protect Your Registry Settings
You should be backing up all of your data. But if you don't, a third item you should have high on your priority list for regular backups is your Windows Registry. This is the huge database that tells your computer how to run. Without it, you have an expensive paperweight.
Most backup programs allow you to back up the Registry automatically. If not, you can easily do it manually. Here's how:
Click Start > Run.
In the box, enter "regedit" (without the quotes). Click OK.
In the Registry, click File > Export (or Registry > Export Registry File in Windows 98). Navigate to your backup medium. It will probably be drive E:.
Name the file an
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Most backup programs allow you to back up the Registry automatically. If not, you can easily do it manually. Here's how:
Click Start > Run.
In the box, enter "regedit" (without the quotes). Click OK.
In the Registry, click File > Export (or Registry > Export Registry File in Windows 98). Navigate to your backup medium. It will probably be drive E:.
Name the file and click Save.
You don't need to back up Windows or your applications, such as Microsoft Word. If the worst happens, you can always re-install them. But information you create must be protected.
Store Your Backups Off-Site
To really be safe, the backup medium (tape, CD or DVD, etc.) should be removed from your site. If you are backing up to tape, for instance, and you leave the tape cartridge in the machine, you'll be protected if the hard drive fails. But if the equipment is stolen, or the office burns to the ground, the backup will be lost.
The safest procedure is to use a different tape or disk each day. Keep all but the current day's backups off-site at your home, perhaps.
Forget About Doing Backups with Floppies
The earliest backup medium was the floppy. These are no longer practical. They hold hardly any data, so a large collection would be needed for a backup. You would have to sit at the computer for hours, swapping the floppies in and out. Don't even think about it.
Tape has been the medium of choice for a number of years. Tapes are relatively slow, but the process can be automated. You can schedule the backup for when you're sleeping.
Tape drives and the tapes to go with them are relatively expensive, too. And the business software can be difficult. Tape is a great backup medium, once you understand it. It has its drawbacks in terms of the time and work involved. But once you get a system running, it can go smoothly.
Here are some other options:
Back up to a burner a CD or DVD drive. Neither holds nearly as much data as a tape. If you decide to go this route, be sure your software allows automated backups. A CD or DVD will
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