Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Bay View WCS on February 22, 2012, 07:17:35 pm
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Was using my laptop yesterday when it suddenly cut out. It's a few years old now and the hard drive had been making a few clicking noises for the past couple of months so just before crimbo I got hold of an external drive and copied all my work, music and photo stuff just in case.
It wouldn't switch back on so panic mode set in - I haven't backed up my work up since december!! Also, I don't think we realise how much we use our computers - I use mine to build/amend/update my website, do my accounts, handle all my email and my other ebay business and get on here etc.
I managed to get it going again thank Stella and saved all recent work again - phew! But it made me realise how much I rely on it.
And the moral - get yer data backed up regularly - you have been warned!
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Everything relating to my business goes into one folder including George back ups twice a day.
that folder automatically backs up to Dropbox whenever anything changes, even a full stop.
You can never be too carefull
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I've a humongous spreadsheet with all my customer details, dates, telephone numbers, payments outstanding; the lot; and I email it to myself everyweek; so should my computer go down, I can get a new computer and retrieve my information from my e-mail. It's simple and it works.
I also have a noisy external hard drive that I back up my C Drive onto every now and again; for photos 'n' stuff.
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I use the internet backup service £15 a year, this was tested out when my laptop wouldn't startup.
In about 15 mins george was re-installed and was sent my last backup.
BRILLANT ;D
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probably just overheated.
turn it over and stick the vacuum cleaner pipe over the fan, you be surprised how clogged it gets