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LEGAL&LEGISLATION; By Joseph Zoller & Brian J. Schoolman Safran Law Offi ces Flossing and getting an annual physical: Two things everyone knows they should do, but are the most likely preventive care items to be put off until tomorrow or next month...or next year. These days, backing up your computer's data can be added to the list of simple to-do's that are too easy to put off. As we all know, however, data corruption, computer crashes, or stolen laptops are all common perils of our digitized world. The nightmare of losing irreplaceable business data or our precious photos and home movies is a reality no IDA member wants. The amount of must-have data – from our wedding photos, to videos of our children and grandchildren's fi rst steps, to last year's tax returns and our business accounting data is staggering. Sadly, most people are just a power surge, leaking roof or hard drive failure away from disaster. Fortunately, with some common sense and some basic tools, you can better ensure your data will be safe from even the most catastrophic disaster. Overview – A Whole Lotta Stuff… The relentless exponential growth of data on our digital devices has lead to a very expensive problem for tech companies and other Fortune 500 companies. In 2011 Apple, Inc. constructed a billion (with a B) dollar data center in North Carolina and already has plans to expand it and construct a new facility on the west coast to backup customer data from iPhones, and provide iTunes music and video downloads. The mother of all Internet data holders, Google, will not provide fi rm numbers, but it is widely believed to have at least 12 data centers in the US alone. A story recently published on CNET.com detailed a fi rst-time peek by journalists into a Google data center. The photos show over a million square feet of server racks in a single data center. 10 International Door & Operator Industry™ The point of these examples is to show that the scope of our data usage, and the Internet infrastructure needed to handle it, is increasing at an exponential rate. Each time you buy a new computer, the size of the hard drive gets bigger. And not just a little bit bigger, but a whole lot bigger. According to a Pingdom.com statistic, the average hard drive in 1990 was 5 MB. In 2010 a standard hard disk was 500 GB, an increase of 100,000 percent! More shockingly, it took 51 years for hard drive manufacturers to build a single drive with capacity of one Terabyte (1,000 GB). It took only 2 years after that to develop a 2 Terabyte drive. Just this year, the fi rst 4 Tb hard drives entered the market. One could argue the research and development labs are driving these amazing advancements. On the other hand, the fact that businesses and consumers are purchasing these extremely large storage devices shows that there is a market for them. Any way you cut it, our homes and businesses rely on huge amounts of data, and everyone needs a plan to make sure that data is safe. The 3-2-1 Rule: The best bet for data recovery The best defense against losing data is to develop and follow a comprehensive data backup program. The tech industry widely accepts a standard known as the "3-2-1 plan." This stands for: 3 - THREE COPIES OF ANY IMPORTANT FILE (the original and two copies); 2 - TWO DIFFERENT FORMS OF MEDIA (hard drive, CD-ROM, fl ash drive); and 1 - AT LEAST ONE OFFSITE BACKUP (preferably in "the cloud"). Continued on page 13