Wednesday, 8th October 2008, turned out to be a bad day for the Ministry of Defence when they were informed by their contractor EDS that a portable hard drive that contained information on approximately 600,000 potential recruits plus 100,000 armed-forces personnel had been lost when it was being held in secured premises in Hampshire.
This is just another addition to the earlier incident of data theft that occurred in January when three unencrypted laptops were lost.
These incidents are a couple of the many data loss incidents that are happening all over the globe. Valuable data that took time and labour to construct was lost in a matter of minutes. In such cases, to have a backup is the ideal option, however, data storage on conventional storage devices like a USB drive or a portable hard drive is useless since they are prone to damage or malfunction due to negligence or other such factors. The best place to store your valuable data is thus, the internet. A reputable online backup and online data storage company provides you with an ‘online vault’ where you can upload your valuable data automatically.
In the event of data loss, all you have to do is download this saved data and you can get started immediately without having to go through the trouble of restoring the data. Your data is uploaded daily and hence, in the case of a back up, you can retrieve your latest used file.
