Do you have a reliable backup and restore plan?
Lightning strikes, buildings burn, thieves steal, hard drives crash,
files get deleted, viruses infect!
Most small businesses put their lives on the line every day and
don’t realize it. With businesses depending more and more on the
data stored on their computers, proper backups are becoming much
more critical. Remote backups accomplish several essential steps
that are often overlooked or done improperly by other backup
software, especially the regular non-automated back up systems.
1.
Backups are done on schedule every
night. Most businesses don’t do this. For one reason
or another they don’t keep a regular backup regimen. Usually
it’s because the person responsible for doing backups, if there
is one, is too busy doing something else, someone is using the
computer when it’s time for a backup or they simply forget.
Since remote backups are done with automated software at night
when no one is using the computer backups are always done on
schedule.
2. All the correct files are backed up.
Ordinary backup software is installed with a list of files to be
backed up. This set of files usually represents the state of the
system when the software was installed and often misses critical
files. Further, it fails to backup files that are added later.
Compounding this problem, very few businesses take the time to
reset their backup software regularly to include those new
files. Remote backup solves problems with a sophisticated system
that constantly reevaluates your system adding files to the
backup as needed.
3. Redundant copies of files are stored
using a sophisticated version control system unavailable in any
other backup software of any kind. This is much too important to
overlook. The general definition of proper backups requires
redundancy, that is one must keep multiple copies of the same
files at different points in their development, called versions.
As an example, you should have a different copy of each backed
up file for each day of the week, one for each week of the
month, and one for each month of the year. Further, you should
be able to easily restore any of your files up to any given
point in time. Banks do it. Big corporations do it and so should
small businesses.
4. Backups are encrypted for complete
security. Would you want someone to be able to slip
one of your backup tapes into a pocket and take it from your
premises? It happens all the time. Tape back ups are not
generally encrypted so anyone can read them and gain access to
your client database, billing records, payroll, tax information
and everything else on your computer. Our remote backup system
encrypts all data for compete security. Nobody, not even, our
employees can read your data, only you.
5.
Finally and most importantly,
backups are immediately sent off site and stored
safely away from the computer, and the business. This is where
almost every business makes its biggest mistake. Even if you do
everything else perfectly, your backups are of little use if
your building burns or if you're unable to physically recover
your tapes from the premises. Most small companies that do
backups leave the tapes in the building where they can be
destroyed right along with the computer.
In summary, all of the correct files are encrypted and sent
immediately off site at night. With remote backup you won’t even
know it’s there until you need it. You’ll never worry about
backups again.
Advanced Remote Backup and Restore Software:
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