No business can operate without data - contracts, sales records, proposals, accounting records, business contacts and emails make up invaluable assets that you can't lose. You have invested a great deal of TIME, MONEY and EFFORT in developing your business data.
Yet how often do you remember to take a backup? Weekly? Daily?
And where do you keep your backup CDs, tapes, memory sticks and external hard drives? Stored safely so you can recover data in an emergency?
Have you tried a test restore to check they work?
DO YOU TAKE A BACKUP AT ALL?
Did you know:
70% of businesses that suffer a major data loss are out of business within 18 months? 1MB of data is worth approximately £10,000? A single leaked record may cost you £180 to rectify? Retrieval of data from a crashed hard drive is often extremely costly and there is NO GUARANTEE of success? Backup methodologies such as tape, CD, memory sticks or external hard drives are not reliable because:
Reliance of human intervention (remembering to backup, possibilities of lost or misplaced data) Fixed capacity of CD, memory stick, etc means reduced flexibility / potential need to split data sets to fit onto backup media Difficulties in detecting a backup problem BEFORE trying to restore All these media have a shelf life - they will fail eventually Slow read/write speed 50% of automated tape backup solutions fail to complete successfully - and the time to find this out is NOT when you need to recover data files! It is a greener, more reliable, more secure and cost-effective option to consider off-site data backup. But check the following before you commit to expensive backup contracts:
Is your data backed up to UK based data centres? Is your data 256bit encrypted for security? Is it compressed for speed of transfer? Is the off-site data backup system protected with indemnity insurance in case of data loss? Does your preferred solution offer low cost, affordable monthly payments without upfront capital costs? 24/7 Uptime provides off-site backup solutions for PCs, Macs and servers (all operating systems) from £4.95+VAT per PC/Mac per month. Try before you buy with our free 10 day backup trial. Visit 24/7 Uptime offsite backup to find out more.