The June newsletter is out, and explains why backups aren’t enough any more; you need backups that go back multiple months, to protect yourself from long-hiding ransomware, accidental file deletions, employee sabotage, lightning strikes, and hardware failures. They’re not all the same threats, and the backup approaches need redundancy and flexibility to put everything back as it was before a disaster. June PC Updater News

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Twice a year, test your backups. Make sure that every category of your computer technology is actually backing up in a way that it will be where you need it, when you need it.
Oh, and move your clocks one hour forward on the morning of Sunday, November 5th, 2017.

Time to Test Backups

Jerry Stern
Chief Technology Officer, PC410.com

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