
Students' Guide to Business Computing
if the accounts files could be restored from computer printouts,
this could take several man-months of effort.
Thus,
hardware and packaged software should not represent a major
problem for Berners Ltd; it should be possible to restore these fairly
rapidly, and presumably the cost will be paid by the insurance
company. The major problem would be in restoring any bespoke
software, and the accounts data files.
As the question indicates, the answer is to take precautions before-
hand, by taking 'back-up' copies and keeping these at another
location. Copies of software should be taken whenever changes are
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