By Tech Experts Staff
Many businesses have a lot of highly important data. A sudden, catastrophic loss of data has proven to put many businesses out of business within months of the data loss.
The extreme costs of both getting data back, if it’s even possible, and the expense of down time and lost business is an insurmountable obstacle to business continuity.
Thankfully, we have many options to proactively prevent data loss and in some cases, keep your business up and running when your original source of data is no longer accessible. With our Experts Total Backup service we’ve got your data covered.
Choosing the right backup option depends on the type of data your organization has, the amount of time that is acceptable to be without access to your data, and the amount of time you need to retain backups of your data.
For small to medium sized businesses, we offer a file based backup system that comes in several tiers.
The various tiers are based on not only the amount of data you have to backup but also on the type of data you need backed up.
For instance, if a business runs around the clock or routinely has files open at all hours, has SQL or other databases running, or the high likelihood of having files open during the backup jobs, we have a backup system that can backup these files, even though they are open, offsite to our secure offsite backup server.
So, what if your business can’t be down for any period of time, even if your building were to burn down?
For situations like this, we offer Backup and Disaster Recovery options.
A Backup and Disaster Recovery machine or BDR, is designed to take continuous snapshots or your server as well as upload this data to a cloud based server.
There are many benefits of having a BDR in place versus just having a standard backup job in place.
The first major advantage is that in the event of something catastrophic like a business being demolished (fire, flood, tornado) access to the server can be quickly restored via the images the BDR uploaded to the offsite server.
What this means is that even servers running applications, databases, etc. can still be completely accessible even if the original equipment was destroyed.
After the equipment has been replaced this image of the server that you have been using via our secure cloud environment can then be transferred to the new server.
This allows you to continue to function as a business, using your original data, while we work to setup a new server onsite for your business.
Planning on replacing an old server soon? We have backup solutions that can be included for onsite backups as well when a server is purchased through us.
Using Windows Server 2008, we can configure onsite image based backups that allow your servers image to be restored to another server in the event your server fails and cannot be used again.
If you need help sorting out the options, give us a call and we can go over your current backup solution to make sure you’re protected.
We’ll help you develop an appropriate backup solution to protect your data and ease your mind. Remember: Neglecting your backups is extremely risky!