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"Are Your Backing Up Your Personal Injury Computer Files?"

Posted by Ron Miller: "Backup of firm data is another important component to your data storage plan. Recent disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, emphasize the need for a solid backup plan. The frequency with which your firm backs up its data depends on a number of factors, including the firm size and the firm's reliance on computer data. A good policy for backing up firm data is to do it every day, so you do not lose more than a day of work in the worst case scenario. There are two components to a good firm data storage plan: on-site and off-site backup.

On-Site Backup: Like external hard drives, on-site backup is basically a process whereby changes to the firm's network are copied every day at a certain time to backup "tapes..." 

Off-Site Backup: Like on-line backup, this is a process whereby the information on your network is saved daily to a remote server, allowing access to data if disaster strikes your network or if you need to access a prior version of documents you've updated...

How often has our law firm need to check out our backup?  Never.  I've also never had to make a homeowner's insurance claim either.  But it is important that I stick with both."

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Source: Trial Lawyer Resource Center, 14 May 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).