The Safety Net of Online Backup Services by Christopher J Enders
Online backup services are one of the most revolutionary ideas of the internet age in my opinion. All computer users who rely upon their computers for their day to day operations know how important it is to have a recent backup at all times. ... Another major advantage of online backup services is that they provide an offsite backup of your computer data. ... So, before you choose a particular plan for online backup services, be sure you know what data will need to be backed up, the intervals at which the automated backups will need to be made, and the storage...

Offsite Backup – Be Very Careful Who You Deal With! by Lee Morrell
The concept of offsite data backup is not new; some time ago it was only available to corporate institutions that had multiple locations, high connectivity speeds and very high budgets. Today the cost of hardware and high speed connectivity has greatly reduced, as a result the number of... Unlike tape backup it is also very scalable, you can start small and grow into larger solutions as and when you require with zero disruption but you have to be with the right offsite backup company in the first place.

Offsite Backup Services are Essential by Chris Robertson
Although you may not list it in on your IRS form, information is your business' primary asset. From your customer database to your financial records to your proprietary product information, information is the key element to maintaining both the day-to-day operations of your business and its... Just as you would store your most precious documents in a bank safety deposit box, you should store your company's most important data with online backup services and use secure offsite backup. ... According to SERVARE, the premiere company for online offsite backup services that are secure,...

Offsite Data Backup or Online Storage - Which Solution is the Most Suited to you? by Lee Morrell
Most people still think that backing up to an offsite environment is the same solution as moving files to an online storage system. If you want to know what the differences are, so you are able to make an informed decision, please read on. Online file storage is a means for moving your digital... Data Backup can create a large manpower overhead, so your offsite solution must be totally automated requiring no human intervention, set and forget. ... As the cost of internet connectivity has greatly reduced, offsite secure backup services have become available to smaller businesses.

The Seven Golden Rules Of Data Backups by Keith Edmunds
Backups of company data are carried out for two main reasons. The first is to cater for those times when a document is inadvertently deleted or damaged and you wish to recover the original document; the second is as part of a disaster recovery plan in case something catastrophic happens to your... Keep backups offsite If your business premises suffer a fire or flood, it is likely that backup media will be lost as well. ... Produce a "backup recovery" manual A major disaster is not the time to try to remember how to recover data from your backup media.

Ensuring Instant Access to a Data Recovery Specialist by Christopher J Enders
The services of a data recovery specialist is undoubtedly something you desperately need when you have a need to have data recovered. However, it is not usually necessary or cost-effective to have a data recovery specialist on staff, unless of course they serve multiple roles... Automated, offsite backup services that are accomplished electronically are an excellent solution for ensuring that your data recovery specialist has access to unaffected, up-to-date backups of your data if your primary place of business is subjected to fire or natural disasters.

How on Earth do Companies and Organisations Lose Data? by Lee Morrell
Browsing the web I became engrossed with the concept of data backup and data loss. There is almost an almost unlimited amount of information covering subjects such as how to keep computer and server data secure, how to back-up data, how to restore data, how to replicate data, who will remove... The rapid growth of cheap high speed internet connectivity and consequently the greatly reduced cost of highly secure, fully automated offsite backup solutions is the reason I ask “how can companies and organisations lose data?” Offsite backup, also known as remote backup, online backup, is a...

Network Attached Storage – An Alternative To Tape Back-up by Mark Allen
Businesses have been using tape to back up their data since the early days of computing. Tape has its limitations, but it was much cheaper than the alternatives, so its use continued. Today, the situation is changing. The price of disk storage has come down dramatically and the performance,... • Locating a NAS system in another office and backing it up over the network provides a fast, automated remote backup. ... Even if you decide not to abandon tape backup entirely, you can use a NAS as a rapid staging server to gather the data from other systems quickly during your backup window.

Data Backup - Do You Have A Data Backup And Recovery Plan In Place? by Lee Morrell
Data backup is rarely a part of a home computer user’s or business IT administrator’s plans, we all say it will never happen to me or my company, but in reality we are just mentally preparing for the time we lose our data. Its like trying to stop smoking, we all know we should do it but will... For me, the best element of an offsite backup solution is not the high encryption security levels in place, the price or the purpose designed replicated infrastructure where your data is stored, but it is the fact that an offsite backup solution is a totally automated process.

Advantages of Offsite Back-Up by Lee Morrell
Everyone admits that information is crucial in modern society. If you possess all the necessary information, you can easily set up your business on whichever terrain you choose. Think about all the possible misfortunes that can overwhelm your office: say fire or earthquake for example, or what’s... An automated data backup storage is a recovery solution as well: you can extract anything that you need in less than a second. ... Not only does offsite back-ups protects your data if your system is damaged: it also eliminates the necessity of tapes.