Offsite Backup for Data

Data backups are crucial to every business today and more than 60% of small businesses have out-of-date or impartial backups of their systems.

Those businesses that incorporate tape backup must deal with the hassles of making sure the tapes are properly backed up and stored in a safe location.

Cost factors

Our backup services are usually priced as a function of the following things:

1. The total amount of data being backed up.
2. The number of machines covered by the backup service.
3. The maximum number of versions of each file that are kept.
4. Data retention and archiving period options
5. Managed backups vs. Unmanaged backups

Most remote backup services reduce the amount of data to be sent over the wire by only backing up changed files. This approach to backing up means that the customers total stored data is reduced. Reducing the amount of data sent and also stored can be further drastically reduced by only transmitting the changed data bits by binary or block level incremental backups.

Advantages of remote backup

Remote backup has advantages over traditional backup methods:

• Remote backup does not require user intervention. The user does not have to change tapes, label CDs or perform other manual steps.
• Remote backup maintains data offsite. Perhaps the most important aspect of backing up is that backups are stored in a different location from the original data. Traditional backup requires manually taking the backup media offsite.
• Unlimited data retentions
• Data storage abroad could be an advantage too.
• Some remote backup services will work continuously, backing up files as they are changed.
• Most remote backup services will maintain a list of versions of your files.
• Most remote backup services will use a 128 – 448 bit encryption to send data over unsecured links (ie internet)
• A few remote backup services can reduce backup by only transmitting changed binary data bits