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Personal disaster recovery software: an essential part of business disaster recovery plans.

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Traditional and obvious methods of protecting business PCs and the digital content they contain do not provide a complete and foolproof solution for content protection or successful recovery in the event of a PC disaster. If a disaster strikes, the requirements to recover the PC to its prior working state can be costly for the business owner. Losing vital data files can be devastating, resulting in extra man hours, extra money spent and decreased employee productivity. American businesses lose billions of dollars per year due to data loss. As more vital business data is being stored in smaller spaces due to an increase in a mobile and widely dispersed workforce (one that is equipped with laptops), disaster prevention and recovery plans are often overlooked or outdated and do not protect against many of the newer types of loss scenarios.

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While many businesses have a documented disaster recovery plan, many do not take into account the possibility that existing methods of backup may not result in 100 percent data and system recovery. According to a recent survey, 34 percent of companies fail to test their backups, and of those that do, 77 percent have...