Onsite and Offsite Data Backup Solutions

No matter how you backup you data it needs to be done. We offer traditional tape and disk based backup solutions along with several online backup solutions that are done through the internet.

Reminder: Backup Your Data

Protecting your data is the single most important maintenance task you can do for your network. It is often one of the most neglected. Having a working data backup process in place is necessity in today’s data drive business economy.

Traditional Tape Backups

Although backups based on tapes have become much more reliable in recent years, they are still not as reliable or as durable as newer online backup services. Tape backup drives require maintenance and often have media failures that may not be noticed until an actual restore is needed.

Disaster Recovery

For a disaster recovery purposes you need to have your backup data stored somewhere off site. Online backup services have this protection built in by design but tape backups need to have their media rotated off site to ensure that recent data is available for restoration in the event of a catastrophic loss such as a fire or theft.

Storing backup tapes in a fire proof safe is not adequate, fire proof safes are designed to keep internal temperatures below the flash point of paper documents for a specific period of time. The heat inside a fire proof safe becomes damaging to magnetic media, tapes, way before the flash point of paper rendering those tapes useless and unrecoverable. Offsite or online data backups done through the internet are already stored off site eliminating the need to assign someone to do that task as you would need to do with tapes. When you factor in the time needed to maintain a tape backup system and consider that ongoing costs of media and maintenance, offsite backup options become quickly cost effective.