Hi, I’m Dave Monk and I write the Backups4.com Blog and the Backups4 E-Books. This site is designed to help you navigate through the myriad options in the automated backup world–because backup software is hard enough to understand. The focus is on practical strategies and tools to protect your data and recover it when necessary. I used floppy disks for my first backups in the late 80s and I have been managing business backups for 17 years. In experience as an IT consultant for scores of businesses, I have designed backup solutions for every type of network, budget and personality.