It's Wednesday, 10-Mar-2010 01:37:35 CST

Test and protect your backups. Don't rest easy just because you have a backup system. It is important to test your backups by restoring them to another machine from time to time. Also, as you practice a backup routine, take copies of your data backups away from the location of the machine. That way, a fire or flood disaster would be less likely to destroy both copies of the data.

Legally Binding: An Oklahoma law firm found that an exiting employee tried to remove files from a computer prior to their departure. Aware that the trash undelete function existed, the trash was also emptied. The data recovery was accomplished and information about the timing of the deletions so that the firm could proceed with prosecution of the former employee.