There’s no better advertisement for documents backup and technical disaster-planning than, well, a catastrophe.

Though it’s only been a year since many unprepared businesses were ground to a halt by ice storms, John Parsons, CEO of Perimeter Technology, said the return of winter hasn’t caused a surge of citizens wanting their info protected.

“You’d think that more folks would get concerned about it during the winter, but the rushes happen when a big event occurs,” he said.

Parsons and other goods professionals, however, said business is steady overall as more individuals and businesses become more data-dependent.

Damon DoRemus, president of Geek Rescue, said the most common computer problem brought to his company is a loss of goods, often from a failing hard drive.

He said a study by Google Inc. indicated that hard drive failure rates go up with age, no matter how often the drive is used. Yet […]

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