It’s a simple story, with potential for tradgedy – I went out of town this week (to meet our credit card processing team face-to-face.) I was gone for a total of 5 days, 4 nights. On night 2, my personal laptop decided to die, claiming “a system file has been deleted or corrupted and windows cannot start.”

Thanks to the always-abundant help from the folks over at my local computer shop, we were able to get it back up-and-running today.

But the question everybody’s been asking is “DIDN’T YOU LOSE ALL YOUR DATA?!?!”

Again, paralleling the theme of simplicity, the short answer is “NO.”

Thanks to the technology from R1Soft (which we’ve been using since earlier this year,) like PhireFast’s servers, my personal laptop is also backed up to an offsite secure server every hour that it’s powered on.

The process was as simple as reinstalling windows (with full NTFS re-format) and having the backup system restore the files to the laptop.

Much success and a big thanks to R1Soft for developing great software!