The loss of data - documents, accounts, customer databases and such is more than an inconvenience to a modern business; it could spell its END.

There are two main scenarios that backing up your computer system and the vital information on it correctly is designed to combat.

• In the event of a total loss or failure of your computer hardware you have an up-to-date copy of your essential information ready to reload on a new system
• If your system becomes compromised by operating system failure, viral infection or hard disk malfunction a mirror image of the system will allow you to have it back up and running, with everything loaded correctly in an hour or so rather than days

One route is to image the entire system to a tape drive and ensure that a member of staff remembers to change the tapes daily and keep them somewhere safe. Tape systems however are expensive and can be unreliable. Testing the recovery procedure is essential before it has to be done for real but in a smaller business it rarely is.

A client whose system we began to manage a couple of years ago had been using one tape to backup his company's data religiously every night. Unfortunately the tape had broken inside the cassette and would have been completely unusable in the event of a failure.

We can tailor a backup solution for your business. The preferred route for the smaller company is to use an external hard disk-based storage device to take unattended backups every night. This runs alongside an off-site backup solution that encrypts your files and copies them to a secure server hosted via your broadband connection. No tapes to remember to change or lose and we receive emails in the event of a failure so we can check your system for problems.

We are enthusiastic resellers for the Deposit It service. Reliable data security from just £60 per year (250Mb)*. Click the link below to learn more.

 
Sign up with us for the 2Gb (£20 per Year) or higher storage option and we'll install it on your system for free

*NB a Broadband Connection is required.