| One of your company's most important assets is its | | | | If you have a large amount of information you can |
| electronic data. Your company stores it's financial, | | | | choose an incremental method. This backs up only |
| documentation, and correspondence documentation | | | | that which is new or has been changed since the last |
| on its servers. | | | | backup date. Again, at least once each week you will |
| What would happen to your company if you had a | | | | want to perform a complete replication and store the |
| fire or flood and you lost all of your valuable data? | | | | tapes offsite. |
| How expensive would a recovery effort be? Would | | | | The down side to onsite backup is that it requires |
| your business be able to recover from such a loss, | | | | you to have an administrator to physically swap-out |
| and where would you even begin the recovery | | | | tapes and remember to move your data offsite. |
| process? | | | | And, media tapes can be very expensive and you will |
| These are all questions which should be answered | | | | need many of them for your nightly and weekly |
| with well planned backup solutions. | | | | backups. |
| Every business today should have a disaster | | | | Offsite Backup Using an Online Backup Service |
| recovery plan in place for its electronic data. No | | | | A more attractive option in backup solutions is to |
| matter how large or small your company is, you need | | | | perform all of this with an offsite backup location by |
| to be able to restore your electronic data if | | | | utilizing an online backup service. To do this you |
| something happens to your servers or to your | | | | would simply schedule a time for your server to |
| physical building location. | | | | connect to your online backup service and replicate |
| To build your disaster recovery plan, you have some | | | | onto their server. The information will travel over the |
| choices to make about how you secure your files | | | | Internet and will be encrypted for security. |
| and where you will store it. | | | | There are many big advantages to using an online |
| Onsite Backup | | | | backup service. You do not have to purchase media. |
| Your data can be backed on onto media tapes at | | | | You do not have to have someone remember to |
| your present location. If you have a small amount of | | | | physically change your tapes and remember to bring |
| information you can perform complete this task each | | | | them to an offsite location. And, your information is |
| evening when no one is in the building. | | | | much easier to restore if you ever need to restore it |
| If you choose to copy your server each night, you | | | | for any reason. |
| will need multiple tapes so that you will always have | | | | It is very important for all businesses to address the |
| past archives to restore from if the need arises. | | | | issue of backing up and storing their electronic data. |
| At least once each week, you want to take your | | | | You need to plan for things to go wrong, because at |
| restore media to an offsite location to store. By | | | | some point things usually do happen. And, you can |
| storing a copy of your data offsite, you ensure that | | | | come out the hero if you can restore the data your |
| if there is a disaster to your physical building, your | | | | company loses! |
| information will still be available to you. | | | | |