An appropriate backup strategy is key to any disaster recovery plan. Without a valid backup, your business could suffer irreparable damage through the loss of client data or other information in the event of fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, earthquake or other disasters. In some cases all you need is an archive of documents or files. When you archive data, test its usefulness by trying to read the media on another machine or system. In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, backups created with NTBackup included in Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003 require that a special Microsoft tool be downloaded and used to restore the data. If you want to archive your data to CD or DVD, using a file archiving utility such as current versions of WinZip allows for strong file encryption thereby protecting your valuable data. In corporate environments, most commercial backup software allows for encrypted backups.

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