Offsite Backup Storage

December 11, 2009 by  

Whether you use your computer for personal or business use, you don’t want to have to face data loss. Data loss ranges from an annoyance to a disaster, depending on what the data was and what you were using it for. It is annoying and frustrating to lose your personal data – photos, mp3 files, video files, games, etc – and it could be a flat out terrible disaster if you lost business data like financial and tax information, customer records and more.

Computers and servers are not invincible and things can go wrong. Crashes are the most common problems, but you can also experience data loss from a variety of disasters, both natural and man made. A natural disaster includes something like a fire or flood, whereas a man made disaster can include everything from hackers and burglary to viruses and user error. In all of those disaster cases, whether they occurred due to nature or a person, the end result is likely to be the same – data loss.

While it’s a smart idea to back up your data to disk or external hard drive, that won’t really help you if your office has a fire – both the original source and the backup devices could be destroyed, leaving you with nothing. Instead, you need a way to make sure your data is backed up, updated regularly, stored in another location, and easy to access when you need it for recovery purposes. It sounds like a tall order, but all of that can be done easily and safely via the use of an offsite backup data storage service.

There are many of these services available to you, and they make it simple and fast to make sure all of your data is copied and put away safely until you need it. Data protection centers house lots of data for their customers, and they even almost always have another backup location where they store further copies in case something happens to THEIR facility. Basically, if you go with a data protection and offsite backup storage solution, you can count on your data being safe and waiting for you whenever you need it.

If disaster strikes and you need to recover your data, you can do it in several different ways, depending on the particular service you went with and the nature of the data loss. If you simply need to restore a few files, you can often do it from a local backup device the service will provide you. If you need to restore something large like a whole hard drive or a database or a whole server, then you can often simply restore it from the service’s servers. If your personal or business equipment is destroyed, a service may even make it so that you can access a virtual version of your data from an Internet browser and work that way until you get new equipment. Whatever the case, going with an offsite storage service will make sure your data is safe.

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10 Responses to “Offsite Backup Storage”

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  7. richabin over on May 9th, 2010 8:21 pm

    My thoughts by point.

    1. I agree with the time involved. In comparison it would be the cheap method.

    2. Thre are plenty of programs to backup to an external drive, but if it's your ownly backup and it fails, you're in trouble. If you choose this, I recommend a 300-500 GB drive on firewire.

    3. Raid is a prevention method. If on drive crashes and you have a raid 5, you're OK, but if 2 drives crash or the computer is wasted in a fire, etc. All data is gone. Raid is still a good option and maybe combined with option 2.

    4. Not time consuming because you would scedule it for when you weren't there. Expensive, yes. Truthfully your amount of data justifies it. If you can't afford

    Another idea is online storage. You could get 200 GB online storage and have the system create a backup file on a local drive, then send it to the remote drive.

    There are actually online backup services available.
    Try these sources:

    and keep looking, I am not affiliated with these services.

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