This reminds me of my discussion with the president of a Vancouver-based high-tech firm in 2002. The president wanted to retain me provided I could guarantee new money in their bank account within three days. He also emphasised that I would have to work all by myself because the guys at the company were extremely busy, and they didn't want to be interrupted with minutiae like client acquisition. To my best knowledge the company doesn't exist any longer.
You must consider outsourcing IT services especially if your business simply can not perform without IT. By outsourcing, you can discuss with your managed it services provider Service Level Agreements or SLA so you will be sure that they support and keep your IT infrastructure maintain its high standard and be accountable if something went wrong.
T. Harv Eker says that you will never hear a rich person blame others for their circumstance because they take responsibility for their lives. I found it to be the same when coming home from the boot camp. It would have been really easy to slip into comfortable ways but I knew that I tech support I.T had to continue growing.
The Managed I.T support uttah answer is YES. I have found in my own experience that Carbon Copy Pro (CCP) covers these three essentials. CCP is a company that can teach anybody to market anything on the Internet.
Another t-shirt that's guaranteed to leave you warm and fuzzy reads "I get paid for tech support..." on the front, "...I don't get paid to care" on the back.
I formatted the drive, wiping everything off of it, went to the "backup" utility that appears when the C-Drive Icon is right clicked, and hit ENTER. The entire C-Drive copied itself on my external drive just as if it were a memory stick. It took 5 mins to set up, and was there the whole time. DUH.