Recovery measures are good and well, but the best measure for data recovery is a good backup. Your systems will eventually fail, that we can be sure of.

So before you get to the point where you’re trying to do a bare metal recovery, why not back the data up? That’s where programs like the on we’ll be featuring next week, Mondo Rescue, come in.

Backups are incredibly important and frequently overlooked as a step of preventative system maintenance. Check out Mondo Rescue to make sure your covered in the case of a data recovery emergency.

It’s got you covered for most of the major Linux file systems and is reported (by the Mondo team) to be in use by “… by Lockheed-Martin, Nortel Networks, Siemens, HP, IBM, NASA’s JPL, the US Dept of Agriculture, dozens of smaller companies, and tens of thousands of users.”

So you know it comes highly recommended. And it’s GPL licensed along with being freely distributed! Check it out.