Perhaps some might think this is a rhetorical question. One of the more traditional responses to this question is “a backup is a copy of data”. The general problem with most definitions of “backup” including this common response, is the failure to mention the actual reason why backups are made: recovery.
Backups require a healthy dose […]

Losing your data is a scary thought… all your photos, documents, audios gone. We put our lives on our computers and losing the data is not really an option as there will be more than likely items that when they are gone they cannot be replaced or reloaded. Virus protection isn’t always sufficient enough to […]

Having written that Tape Backup is not recommended, I should now write about what we are recommending for a solution. Prudent marketing might make me say: “email me to find out”, but that’s not in the spirit of a good blog and frankly, it’s not that hard to figure out what I might be thinking […]

A remote database backup service provides those who use it with the ability to store and back up their computer files. It can be used at home, at school or at work. An online backup system is usually constructed around a software program that runs according to schedule, once daily, and typically during the night. […]

Information retrieval, IR, is an area of study based around the searching for documents, data within documents or metadata about documents. It may also include searching relational databases, structured storage and the Internet. Other terms that may be used include document, data, information and text retrieval. These forms of retrieval, however, have their own technology, […]