Thursday, July 22, 2010

Every Restaurateurs Number 1 Priority Should Be Backing Up the POS Server



You are the owner or manager of a restaurant. You come into your store on Monday and the computers are missing. You were robbed.

You are a student and just completed your history term paper. You turn on your printer and a power surge fries your computer. It won't turn on.

You have over 2,500 baby pictures of your newly born child (now 3 months old). You boot your computer and get a blue screen.

You spent three weeks getting your checkbook up to date, turn on your computer and get a virus notification. You can no longer get to your checkbook.

You illegally downloaded over 10,000 songs from Lime Wire and your computer hard drive no longer spins.

No matter what you use your computer for, just imagine what will be lost should your computer be gone (lost, stolen, fried, or just plain broken). You have just lost all of your important data, files, photos, music or whatever else you may have stored on your computer.

Backing up your POS server is YOUR responsibility. If you are the owner or manager of a restaurant, you need to know how your POS server gets backed up. You also need a written plan to get your business up and running due to the loss of one or more of your POS terminals via computer failure or theft.

Understand, a broken or stolen computer can be replaced. The inventory, other data, photos, music, and other lost items can never be replaced. That's why, you need to make sure you backup all of your data.

The way you back up your data depends on the importance of the data.

If you own or manage a restaurant, you may want to backup your data on a daily basis. Should you lose your data, you will only be losing one day's worth of data which may not be catastrophic.

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