# Backing up information

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/11/26/backing-information/
- Published: 2009-11-26T09:13:12+00:00
- Author: Finbar Cullen

All the information that prospect researcher and fundraisers process needs looking
after, as does everyone else’s. Some charities are huge organisations – major employers,
reliant to a considerable degree on that information. Information is also important
to smaller charities, and to freelancers like me.

 

I was intrigued by a recent article in Information Age (http://digbig.com/5bargq)
on the recent experiences of the MS Society and backing up information. Put simply(
I struggle to understand the detail of many Information Age articles), during an
IT maintenance operation, the network was turned off. When the system was restarted,
rather a lot of data was lost. When MS implemented their data backup process, they
realised some major shortcomings in the system that they relied on. To cut a long
story short, they reviewed their backup system, implementing one that would work
more efficiently, and saved themselves shedloads of money.

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How many of us have backup systems that work efficiently, I wonder. Gulp!

Finbar Cullen

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