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Here is a Case study of how Online Business owners affected by Hurricane Katrina got through the crisis. We can all learn from their stories.

Business owner 1 ran a very successful online storefront from his home in the Gulf Coast region. He ran his business off a desktop computer. When he heard the Hurricane Warnings he backed his data up using a DVD Recorder. He also decided to buy that laptop he had wanted for so long. He took his DVD back-up and restored it to his laptop and did a few hours of testing to make sure his laptop was operational. After he was sure he had a good backup copy. He Made 3 Copies of his DVD Backup. He mailed one DVD to a relative in Arizona. He placed the 2nd DVD Backup in a Safe Deposit box in his bank and he left the 3rd DVD backup with his laptop computer. On Sunday when the mandatory evacuation order came he moved his home desktop computer to his attic. He grabbed his Laptop and a suitcase and drove to Safety. Today 2 weeks after the Hurricane Katrina Disaster he is running his online business from his hotel room on his laptop.

Our second business owner lives in the St. Louis Area 700 Miles from the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Area. His online business was hosted by a New Orleans based company. Hearing about the Hurricane he decided to log into his CPanel and backup his web site. He downloaded the backup to his personal computer. A few days later when his Host went down because of the Hurricane Katrina he simply found a new host restore his web page from his backup to his new host. Changed his Name Servers with his registrar and he was back in business a few days later when the new Name Servers Propagated across the Internet.

You got me both business owners are fictional, However the stories they tell are important. You need to be prepared for a disaster. In both cases our business owners were able to recover from Hurricane Katrina by listening to the warnings and doing make the required preparations. What if there had been no warnings? What if this had been a Fire, Earthquake, Theft or Terrorist Attack? Neither of our business owners would have been prepared. Are you prepared? Consider this your warning. Backup your data. Place a copy of that backup in a safe place nearby. Mail a copy of that backup to a trusted friend or associate 1,000 miles or more away.

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Is a data backup solution part of your computer plans? Do you have a way to protect yourself if something goes wrong with your computer or data? Computers are a useful part of our lives but we don’t always protect ourselves from their loss be it fire, theft or hardware failure.

We often don’t consider how fragile our computer data really is. Do you keep sensitive information on your computer that you would be upset if you lost it? Not sure? Consider this. If I told you that I was going to format your hard drive right now and you will lose all of the information on your computer, would you be ready? Or would you need to get a few files first… If you are in the second group, chances are you don’t have a proper data backup solution in place to help you handle disasters.

What happens if your computers are stolen?

I recently had a business colleague of mine who’s office was robbed and who had all of his computers stolen. He naturally felt helpless and victimized over the situation. What was especially frustrating was that he thought he had taken the proper measures to secure his office. He had a good security system in place, had secured his premises and yet they were still able to cut his phone lines, disable his alarm and have their way in his office. Don’t think a computer theft can happen to you? You know what? It can happen to anyone and you don’t have to own a business.

Computer hard drives do crash

If theft doesn’t get your computer, a hard drive failure certainly might. Hard drives are the devices in your computer that store the information on your computer. Your computers’ long term memory if you will. They are built with rotating mechanical parts. These parts break down. If they break down, your data can be gone. Are you prepared?

Data on a hard drive can often be recovered by expert data retrieval houses but their prices usually start at $10,000 and up. Want to avoid such costly recovering options? Establish a data backup solution.

A fire can wipe out your computers and your data

If computer theft or hard drive failure don’t destroy the data on your computers, a fire certainly might. This threat speaks to an off site backup storage solution. While the first two can be averted by simply burning a CD of your most critical data, fire can destroy your CD’s too if they aren’t stored off site. Fire is just one more reason why a data backup solution needs to be a part of your vocabulary and your action plan.

Protecting your data just makes good common sense. If you have data that you don’t want to loose - and most of us do - you owe it to yourself to protect your data. The next article in this series gives you some simple steps you can follow to protect yourself from data loss.

Joe Duchesne is the webmaster of Gotocompare.com a

Addressing a D2X Digital SLRCoolpix 8800 search, this article provides a quick comparison of the Nikon D2X digital SLR and Coolpix 8800 cameras.

Nikon D2X Professional Digital SLR

Check out a Nikon D2X review or two and quickly realize this is a world class professional digital SLR. Instantaneous response and fast 37ms shutter lag allow the photographer to compose and take the photo instead of waiting for camera start-up, shutter or processing time.

The D2X sports a 12.4 megapixel DX format CMOS sensor capable of 5 FPS. Continuous mode can be increased to 8 FPS with a cropped field of view using 6.8 megapixels. The D2X SLR’s 4-channel color readout and advanced image processing algorithms deliver truer color and higher processing speeds.

Additional features such as i-TTL Speedlight technology, sYCC color profiling, and Advanced 3D-Color Matrix Metering II make the D2X digital SLR a professional photographer’s dream.

Nikon Coolpix 8800 Long-Zoom Digital Camera

An 8800 camera digital Nikon review search reveals a surprisingly compact mid-sized digital camera. With 8.0 effective megapixels and 10X optical zoom, this camera ranks at the top of Nikon’s Coolpix line. Vibration Reduction circuitry compensates for camera movement, allowing shutter speeds up to 3 stops slower without image blur.

The 8800 offers a choice of built-in flash or external hot-shoe. Nikon’s i-TTL flash technology delivers full flash zoom control with the SB-600 and SB-800 Speedlight units. In addition to fisheye, wide angle and telephoto converters, and other adaptors, Nikon 8800 filter options include neutral color, neutral density and polarizing filters.

Other Coolpix 8800 features include: 15 automated scene modes, 5 movie modes, and continuous shot modes up to 30 FPS. For the serious digital photography enthusiast the 8800 offers quality and features comparable to, but at a lower cost than digital SLR’s.

How Do These Cameras Compare?

Unlike many digital camera comparisons, comparing the D2X and Coolpix 8800 is not a true “apples-to-apples” comparison. Both models have a rugged but lightweight magnesium alloy body and high quality Nikkor lenses. And both feature i-TTL flash technology, multiple AF, scene, shot and exposure metering modes, plus aperture and shutter-priority settings.

The Coolpix 8800’s rechargeable lithium-ion battery will take up to 240 shots per charge, while the D2X’s (also lithium-ion) will take up to 2,000 photos on a single charge. DX Nikkor lenses for the D2X offer wide-angle views up to 180