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Dear Subscriber,
Welcome
to the inaugural edition of Time Saving Clicks, the E-Newsletter!!!
There
will be just one main article whose sole purpose is to arm you with
information that will help save you clicks, time and money!
Additionally, there will be a Click for Click section with how-to
instructions on performing a time saving task.
And lastly a Community focused section to list events and/or news. Please
let me know if you have an event you’d
like me to list by emailing me at info@socsofcc.com.
Sincerely,
June
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 Backups and
Disaster Recovery
Easier, yet more important than you think!
Firstly I will admit two things about myself: One is I hate to write,
anything, the second is I love to run! Really !
I actually love to run and miss it if I go too long without one . It drives me nuts when I drive by other runners
and I can't get out there with them!
But I found that I can make the best of things by combining the 2! I can
use my time running to compose my newsletters! Especially as I do my
best, clearest thinking while out there pounding the pavement.
I wanted to start out with a topic that is near and dear to me, backups.
As my career started out in the banking and legal industries, Socsofcc/founderprofile , I learned early on the
importance of documenting and backing up everything! (Also know to some
as CYA.)
What are backups? Some people don't realize that it simply means
making a copy of your critical data (back to this later) onto a:
- Memory stick or data key
(not my favorite option - too easy to lose or
overwrite, yet easy and convenient from small amounts of data).
- CD (S) or DVD (S)
- External Drive
- Another computer or
server
- Tape
drive
- most servers are backed up to tapes.
- Web-based services such
as www.ezbackup.com (my current favorite for home based and/or
small businesses)
Backing up your data means storing it anywhere other that where it
normally lives, your local hard drive.
What is Disaster Recovery? Taking that backup (copy) of your data
and storing it off- site:
- Web-based server (again
my favorite as it does automatic backups and its off site too!
- On-site fire proof safe
- Safe Deposit Box
- Employee's car or home
in a fire proof safe
Simply put Backups are like insurance for your data should your
hard drive fail. With Disaster Recovery being an umbrella policy
that covers you in a major disaster such as fire, hurricane or flooding.
Maybe you think you don't have critical data to backup?...
I had always had a company issued laptop that I backed up onto the local
server, like a dutiful IT person would :). Then I had my own personal
desktop and it was just that, personal -- used for the family. Mostly web
surfing, games no critical data, right?
Well I thought so until the day I got a scary message (yes, scary even to
me!) while booting it said that my hard drive had a problem and I
suddenly remembered that I had all the family pictures from the past 2
years on that hard drive, yikes! Digital pictures from our digital camera
that had never been printed or you guessed it, backed up!
I vowed right then and there to Mike (then 6 yrs old) "if Mommy
fixes the computer problem we are going straight to Staples and buying a
CD burner". So yes I did work around the problem and currently have
all my digital photos on CDs and safely stored in my fire proof safe :).
You probably have some critical data , too. So back it up: Be it
photos, music files (that you paid for), financial data, emails, anything
that lives on your computer, that you don't ever want to lose or try to
re-create, and keep it in a safe place!
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 Click for
Click
Burning Your Data to CD(s)
Insert a
rewritable CD in your drive.
Go to My Documents
Go to Edit/Select All or hold down the CTRL button while hitting the
letter A.
Right click and select Send To, then select your CD or DVD
drive (it will take few minutes to copy the files, you will see a prompt
that says there are files waiting to be written, ignore it.)
When done, go to My Computer, click on the CD drive.
Then in the left hand corner click on Write these files to CD.
When completed the CD will be ejected. Label, date and store in a safe
place.
How to burn
your data to CD(s)
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 Community News
for You to Use!
Cut it Out at
Mirror Image Salon
Sunday, February 11th, 2007 Save the
date for a great new haircut at the Mirror Image Salon off Exit 8 at 23N
White’s Path Union
Station Plaza in S.Yarmouth
and help raise awareness and funds to Cut Out Domestic Violence!
Many experienced Hair
Stylists will be donating their talents from 10am 4 pm to benefit
Independence House. Cost is just $20
donation for a wash and cut. Other Cape Salons
are welcomed and encouraged to get involved and participate. For more
information, please call Pam at The Mirror Image Salon at 508-398-1880.
More info...
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