Regardless of your backup method, it is absolutely important that you periodically test your ability to restore.
Still using tapes to backup your data. What happens when that old tape drive dies and its too old to fix or replace with the same type?
A good online backup system with private key encryption is the safest and most reliable way to backup data.
A 7200 RPM hard drive makes 10,368,000 revolutions per day. It's amazing they don't break more often.
Your hard drive will fail and all of your data will be lost at the most inconvenient and worst possible time.
There is a huge difference between disk image backups and file/data backups. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
Windows 7 has a great restore feature called system protection. If it is turned on, you can restore previous versions of files.
If your service provider can decrypt your data, then your online backup and file storate is NOT safe. blog.backupinfo.org/2006/07/…
