April 18, 2008, Newsletter Issue #163: Computer Viruses

Tip of the Week

When planning your strategy for backing up data (and you should back up your data regularly), always make sure you have a way to restore the information from your backup to the main system, that doesn´t involve using the backup itself. It´s an important part of data security and information security. If your restoration program is saved as part of your backup copy, you might not be able to restore your data in a crisis - because to do the restoration, you need the software that has to be restored. It becomes a ´catch-22´ situation. Usually, having the installation disks for your backup program will prevent the ´catch-22´.

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