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Back It Up, Back It In, Let Me Begin…

Mr M ran a restaurant.  The restaurant had a computer, a master till and two slave tills running on a wired and wireless network. On one of the busiest days of the year, Mr M’s master till froze and, on rebooting it, came up with:

Primary master hard disk fail

Which is never something you want to see. Mr M’s master till was knackered, and along with it any slave tills were useless.

Mr M managed to get a new hard disk, and had Windows XP reinstalled along with the till software, but Mr M had no backups and so had to completely reprogram the till, which took days.  Mr M had no records of what he’d sold or taken for months, and no idea how many customers he’d even had. Mr M’s workload just quadrupled.

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Mr M ran a restaurant.  The restaurant had a computer, a master till and two slave tills running on a wired and wireless network. On one of the busiest days of the year, Mr M’s master till froze and, on rebooting it, came up with:

Primary master hard disk fail

Which is never something you want to see. Mr M’s master till was knackered, and along with it any slave tills were useless.

Mr M managed to get a new hard disk, and had Windows XP reinstalled along with the till software,and Mr M’s till had been backing up to his computer every day, and his computer backing up to a hard drive that came home with him every night. Mr M reloaded the database, records, configuration and software from the backup and was back where he’d left off in just a few hours.

There are three things that are certain in life; death, taxes, and a platter of small metalic discs spinning 7,000 times a minute 24 hours a day less than the width of a human hair from magnetised needles will one day fail.

You need a genie in a bottle to avoid the first two, but DG Computers can make your life painless when the third happens. Contact us to talk about it.