If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will eventually… the hard drive starts clicking… the screen keeps turning blue on your PC… the spinning beach ball of death keeps appearing on your Mac… or the power button doesn’t respond when you push it… and your computer is dead.  Do you have a backup ready to restore?  Or are all your photographs, videos, and business files lost?

A complete crash could spell minor or major disaster for a small business owner who stores everything from email and website files to financial records to client projects to virtual product files on the computer.  If you only save a file to a CD here and there, or haven’t gotten around to setting up any type of backup system yet, let’s look at three of your options.

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