In the event of a catastrophe, a reliable backup may be your one and only lifeline. The term "catastrophe" conjures up images of fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and so on, but catastrophic events can come from much more subtle beginnings. Despite their humble beginnings, these common events can have equally catastrophic results.
There's the email from "Uncle Bob's" kids that contains a virus that's been propagating in their school computer systems
That "bargain" priced computer programmer with the ink still wet on his diploma who you just heard saying "oops!"
A "little power bump" that's followed by the message "unable to boot from drive"
The jimmied door or broken window that leads to your now-empty desktop
The screeching noise that precedes the on-screen message "Error reading from drive C:"
The employee who quits their job and says "I've had enough - I'll be gone tomorrow" (and so will your data)
The conversation overheard: "I didn't know 'format' would do THAT!!"
You get the idea -- disasters come in many forms. In all these cases a reliable and timely backup is the only method of recovery that will put things back to their exact former state. Even though these catastrophes won't make headlines in the morning paper, they can still cost thousands of dollars to recover from... unless you use Res-Q Automated Backup