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Computer Backup Options | Choosing Local Versus an Online Computer Backup

by Rod Dunne December 21, 2010

Doing a data backup should be a critical part of every PC owner’s regular computer repair and maintenance activities. There are currently two computer backup options to choose from (a) using an online computer backup service and (b) local backups that use computer backup programs to synchronized files. Here, we’ll take a look at the (more)

Computer Service Technician: Jobs, Career Path and Training

by Rod Dunne December 16, 2010

Life as a computer service technician can be a fulfilling, flexible and profitable career if you enjoy fixing computers. Here, we’ll look at what the job entails, finding the right job and the career path options. Job Description This role is a hands-on job that requires the individual to be able to do PC repairs, (more)

Offsite Tape Storage

by Rod Dunne October 3, 2010

For decades, offsite tape storage has been the primary way of completing system/data recovery within companies. Many firms still recover lost data using backup tapes in preference to some of the more modern storage options. This article takes a look at the reasons for the ongoing success of backup tape storage and the important considerations (more)

Working With SAN Backup Solutions

by Rod Dunne July 26, 2010

Using SAN backup solutions forces you to consider a variety of scalability, disaster recovery and bandwidth demands that affect the architecture of your network. Here, we’ll look at some of the benefits and pitfalls of using this network configuration along with tape backup systems. At its core, a storage area network (SAN) uses an Ethernet (more)

Tape Backup – Do We Need It Now That We Have HDD?

by Rod Dunne July 22, 2010

It may seem strange to many people that tape backup software and tape autoloader machines still exist in companies today and are still widely used for system/data recovery. In recent decades, HDD storage systems have become widely available, store massive data volumes and are increasingly cheap to run. Data backups can even be transferred across (more)