Do you back up your PC's hard drive daily? How about weekly? Monthly? Could it be that you've never run a backup?
If you answered "yes" to that last question, you're leaving yourself open to disaster! If your PC's hard drive should go bad, and if you haven't run a backup, you'll lose all the important data stored on your machine.
To help avoid such a disaster, the EZ-Backup service provides a simple, convenient, free-of-charge method for backing up network-connected Macintosh computers and PC compatibles to all staff, faculty, and students at Rensselaer.
To illustrate the importance of the EZ-Backup service, we'd like to share a success story from Ruth Sabian, Director of Purchasing, whose hard drive recently crashed quite suddenly:
"I thought you might like to know about an extremely happy person. Yesterday, my hard drive crashed, but within one and a half hours I was back in business with all software reloaded and all files recovered. The EZ-Backup service that is offered is wonderful! I'm so glad that it was loaded on my PC and can't imagine why everyone doesn't take advantage of it."
We should point out that her recovery time was also aided by having a replacement hard drive on hand, but all her files and software were restored exactly as she was used to seeing them. The backup files saved her the frustration, lost time, and lost files that she would have experienced if she didn't use EZ-Backup.
EZ-Backup is easy to install and easy to use. In fact, you can put it in the start-up menu on your PC, so you don't even have to remember to run it!
If you'd like more information on how to subscribe to the EZ-Backup service, contact the VCC Help Desk at ext. 7777, or refer to the March 6, 1996 issue of News Cache, viewable at the URL http://www.rpi.edu/Computing/NewsCache/Cache.html.
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