It must function on its own without internet access.
It must have:
1. A Hard drive to contain your data and applications.
2. A Printer Port.
3. A DVD reader / writer.
4. A USB Port.
Desktop or Notebook Computers are good choices.
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When Your Machine Breaks, you will lose access to:
1. Your Data.
2. Your Applications and Programs,
3. Access to the Internet.
All Machines break, even the cloud based machines that
provide you with your computing capabilities.
How does one prepare for a machine failure?`
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Loss of Your Computer Resources results from:
1. Personal computer failure.
2. Remote computer service,
3. Power failure.
4. Internet failure.
5. Software failure.
6. Security failure.
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The Loss of Your Computer Resources
Why is this a major disaster?
Minimally. You will lose the ability to:
1. Manage your finances
2. Pay your bills.
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Every Location Has A Potential Disaster:
1. Tornado
2. Hurricane
3. Earthquake
4. Mud Slide
5. Flood
6. Tsunami
7. Brush Fires.
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The preparation for a Disaster sounds like
a lot of work!
It isn’t as much as you think.
Keep in mind that a disaster will occur.
All computers eventually break.
When this happens, you will appreciate
your preparation efforts.
The accounting requirements are as follows:
1. Don’t use paper-less billing,
a. Loss of internet equals not receiving
your bill.
b. Multiple copies of bills means you
are more likely to get your bill even
in a disaster.
2. Make printed copies of all of your
Accounting activity.
a. In a dire emergency, you can do
accounting by hand.
b. (Paper) Weight of the evidence is
useful in a disagreement.
3. Make strong passwords.
a. If you can easily remember the
password, it isn’t strong enough.
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When the backup folder has little less
than 4 giga-bytes:
1. Prepare two DVD’s from the backup folder
2. Store one of these DVD’s near the machine.
3. Store the other DVD at a remote location.
4. Clean up the backup folder.
5. Clean up the three flash drives.
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At the beginning of each day:
1. Make a new zip file in the backup
folder with a name containing the date.
Throughout the day:
1. At the completion of each task, store
the associated folder in the zip file.
At the end of the day:
1. Store the zip file in each of the
three flash drives.
2. Store the flash drives as follows:
a. Near the computer
b. In your pocket or purse.
c. In Your car.
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Disaster-Hardened backup procedure requires:
1. 3 Flash Drives (5 gigabytes or more).
2. Blank DVD’s.
3. The capability of writing the DVD.
(Most modern machines have this capability)
4. A compressed zip file capability.
(Most modern machines have this capability)
5. A “backup” folder.
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