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Email archiving is a lot like air conditioning. No, it won't keep you cool on a warm day, but it does have one major thing in common with that great invention. At one point, air conditioning was a plaything of the rich, and wasn't thought of as accessible or necessary by common people. Now that is no longer the case.
Email archiving can no longer be thought of as a luxury, either. More businesses than ever are finding that email archiving is a fact of their life!
What's causing this newfound love of storing email? Regulation, of course. FINRA, SOX, HIPAA, FRCP, DPA, IDA. FOIA, MiFID, is just a partial list of regulation that applies to a growing number of businesses. Not only is regulation growing, but it is growing in complexity. One thing seems certain, though, and that's email needs to be archived in a specific format for many businesses. Failure to do so can result in huge fines and potential ruin. For that reason, smart businesses are making sure they do everything in their power to comply.

Your laptop or computer data is probably very important, however, you might not realise this until it is lost owing to a virus or faulty hard disk drive etc. Programs can normally be replaced but data cannot unless a back up is available!
If a computer is networked to another computer or laptop then it is quick and easy to save data between each. Care needs to be taken not to have one machine accidentally overwrite the other's data. If your computer is stolen or gets a virus then the data will be lost, so this method of back up will not be suitable for all users.
The quickest way to back up data is to save it to an USB RAM drive. This is quick and simple but has many reliability disadvantages. If you are using an USB RAM disk to back up your important data there's a high possibility that it will at some point be lost. USB RAM drives are easily broken by careless handling or they just fail from electronic component failure. So just use an USB RAM disk to relocate data between computers and not as a reliable data store.