| Whether you work from home or for a large | | | | to meet the exact requirements of those of the disk |
| conglomerate backing up the information contained | | | | on your PC. This means not only are you saving |
| on your PC is essential. But when it comes to finding | | | | yourself time but also money as well. |
| the right disk backup solution you may become | | | | Advantage 2 - Disks are far less vulnerable to being |
| somewhat confused as to what is the best, simply | | | | damaged either by people or the environment. The |
| because there are so many different ones to choose | | | | problem with tape backup systems is that they are |
| from. | | | | vulnerable and can be easily damaged by heat, |
| You can either go for solutions where you back up | | | | humidity and dirt. Because of this, you can expect |
| everything you have to an external hard drive, which | | | | when trying to restore data from tapes then you will |
| connects to your PC using a USB cable. Or the other | | | | find that you have lost between 25 and 50% of the |
| solution is to use an online data backup service. Also, | | | | data that has been stored on it. |
| you have the choice of going for either a tape or | | | | Advantage 3 - Disks are far stronger than tape so |
| disk to disk back up system. Which one you choose | | | | they will last much longer and can stand up to you |
| to use depends on the type of PC you have as well | | | | constantly overwriting the information that is already |
| as the kind of network that you are using. | | | | on them. Also because these come in sealed cases |
| Previously when people where wanting to back up | | | | the chances of them being affected by external |
| information that they have collected on their PC's | | | | elements is greatly reduced. |
| they would use tapes. However today more and | | | | Advantage 4 - Probably one of the biggest |
| more people are relying on disk based ones instead. | | | | advantages to be gained form using a disk backup |
| So what are the advantages to using a disk backup | | | | solution system is that they are far easier to |
| system over a tape one. Below we will take a look | | | | manage. This is because such systems will often |
| at what some of these are. | | | | come with tools to help you manage the system and |
| Advantage 1 - Actually moving the information from | | | | in some cases are browser based so it allows for |
| your PC on to a disk backup system is far quicker | | | | easy configuration of settings as well as checking the |
| than with a tape one. Not only is it much quicker it | | | | status of how the backups are proceeding. |
| also allows you to configure the settings on the disk | | | | |