You’re sitting pretty knowing that you backup your files to that new external hard drive you bought last year. You also copy your ‘My Documents’ directory onto the server every week.

But then you’re putting together Q4 sales figures and you spot that Q2′s sales figures aren’t in your master spreadsheet. That’s ok, you’ve got a backup, right?

Holes in Backups

You check the version on your external hard drive. Hmm… missing from that spreadsheet as well. The queasy feeling is beginning to set in. You have a nasty feeling that you’re going to find the same thing when you look on the