We had a powerful thunderstorm pass over today. As it looked like it was going to pass directly overhead I powered down our entire computer system and disconnected them from wall sockets, power sockets etc. - phones, desktops, laptops, servers and so on.
A few posts ago I talked about the importance of backups. A recent article brought this to my attention again though it was discussing Disaster Recovery rather than just backups: Symantec have found that most Small / Medium Businesses are unprepared for when disaster strikes.
The importance of good backups was driven home to me again recently when our tape drive failed and I had to replace it. I decided that it was time to upgrade our tape drive to a newer model with greater capacity as recently our backups have been requiring more than one tape. I purchased a reasonable second hand tape drive through Trademe.