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Five reasons backups fail and tips for prevention


Rick Cook, Contributor
08.01.2006
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Backups are central to any data protection strategy, but by some estimates more than half of all backups fail either in whole or in part. When you look at the reasons for why they are failing, the same issues come up again and again. Below is a list of the common problems that cause backup failure, in decreasing order of frequency.

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About the author: Rick Cook has been writing about mass storage since the days when the term meant an 80 K floppy disk. The computers he learned on used ferrite cores and magnetic drums. For the last 20 years, he has been a freelance writer specializing in storage and other computer issues. This tip originally appeared on SearchStorage.com.


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