Disaster Recovery Made Easy With Online Backups by Harald Anderson
Whenever disaster strikes the most critical asset that every company should have protected from sudden loss due to fire, flooding, or theft is their data. No matter what happens to your hardware you can be sure to be able to be up and running no matter how sudden or how severe your damage or... Online data back up is the most cost effective way for you to protect your investment by securely storing your data with an offsite data backup provider. ... Upon configuration of the backup software, offsite remote backups are performed transparently to the end users, so backups are performed...

Online Data Backups for Newbies by Harald Anderson
How long have you been doing business online? Whether you are new or an old timer you need to understand the one important truth of the e-world. That being that the largest threat to business survival is data loss. Online data backup is not just for huge multinational corporations and computer... Although there are several methods to accomplish online backup and data retrieval the simplest method is for the end user to install a backup package that has been pre-configured to connect to the service provider’s offsite servers (supplied by the offsite backup service provider).

Your Business versus Mother Nature by Harald Anderson
Business Consultants earn hundreds of thousands of dollars every year showing businesses how to improve their productivity. All business consultants in the Information Technology area agree that the biggest threat to business survival is data loss. There are many different data backup solutions... These methods of data backup are definitely better than nothing, and can provide protection against user error, data corruption, and in some cases even computer theft (that is if the data backup equipment itself isn’t also stolen) and many of the other pitfalls associated with digital media.

Offsite Data Backup Not Just for Fortune 500 Companies Anymore by Harald Anderson
In today’s high paced digital world there is a very high value placed on information. Not just the kind of information you read in the newspaper or your favorite trade journals, but the type of information that we generate on a day to day basis with our digital devices. ... There was a time when a concept like “offsite data backup” was relegated to the geeks in IT at Fortune 500 companies… That time is gone. ... Nowadays we all have data that we want to preserve and ensure it’s usefulness to us, and if you are serious about protecting your data you should seriously consider an offline...

Four Basic Backup Steps by Buddy Shearer
"I have this cool backup tape drive in my new computer and a couple of tapes so I am all set!" That is true, you now have a level of protection that a lot of people do not have but are you going to do it right? Change the tapes regularly, replace them when their life runs out, clean the tape... After all, it is your data on the tape so keep it safe. ... Store the tapes offsite. ... It never fails, when you absolutely need a backup to be made then that is when it will fail because of a dirty head.

How DATA is LOST by Harald Anderson
Over 95% of the people and businesses that I speak with have experienced data loss. However the sad fact is that the majority of businesses are woefully unprepared and do not understand the serious risk of data loss. Do you have a disaster recovery plan? ... Right about now, you may be asking yourself: “What can I do?” Actually, there is one simple solution to all your data integrity needs: offsite data backup. ... Offsite data backup is easy to set up and protects your data in the most secure, economical way possible.

External Hard Disk Drive: The Best Backup Medium by Yuri Filimonov
Want to backup quickly and easily? Backup to external hard disk drives. As a hard disk is the fastest and largest backup medium you can get, you may want to backup all your important files to an external USB hard drive. You can backup literally everything: your Outlook and Outlook Express files,... When using a backup schedule, you can simply backup the backup program run when you are absent (or maybe even at night) to backup everything without supervision. ... As external USB drives have the cheapest storage volume (about 200Gb for $150?) and you can reuse them for several years, you may...

Backup To DVD: 8 Reasons Why by Johan Beyers
A backup to DVD gives you advantages that no other backup method can match. Here are 8 advantages you have when doing a backup to DVD: Low initial cost -- These days, DVD writers are often bundled with new computers. Even if your computer does not have one built-in, you can get one for... Easy, compact storage -- Suppose you do a backup every week, using one DVD per backup. ... Backup history -- As you backup files to DVD, you build up a history of how the files have changed . ... Multiple copies -- If you backup to DVD R and store those disks, you have multiple copies of your data.

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... There is no point just moving your most important asset to another location, make sure it is totally safe, data should only be backed up to a class 1 data centre with the highest security and safety measures in place, hardware should be clustered so there is no single point of failure within that data...

Offsite Backups by James Walsh
The moment it happens, the primary concern for the user is to get the data back so that the work continues uninterrupted. Sensing this need, a multi-million-dollar data-recovery industry has cropped up that specialises in recovering lost data from a damaged storage device. ... Offsite Backup In offsite backup, also called remote backup, the user data is sent long distance via the Internet or some other network to remote servers for storage. ... Advantages of Offsite Backup Offsite backup offers significant advantages over regular backup methods.