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Not all data is created equal.
Your backup
and recovery solution needs to be tailored
to the type of data you are protecting. Data
which rarely changes or can be archived is
ideally suited to a tape backup solution.
Day to day business critical data which needs
to be easily and quickly retrieved or data
created by mobile workers in remote offices
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Our Suggested Data
Protection Strategy Is Therefore: |
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Online
Data Protection
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Essential protection for business critical data vital for day to day operation such as MS Exchange, SQL Databases, CRM packages (such as ACT!, SalesLogix), financial software and email.
If you need to protect data on PCs or laptops you need to use Back2Go's Data Protector Service (also known as BackupMyStuff®) or visit our Server Backup Service pages if you are considering using online backups to protect your servers.
You can also complete an Enquiry Form and one of our sales representatives will contact you in one business day to discuss your requirements.
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Near-line Data Protection
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Data is backed up using online archiving or to disk or tape.
If disk or tape is used, then another copy should be kept offsite in case
of a disaster in the office.
This level of protection is suitable for data
that you need to be able to access but not immediately, such as last months accounts period end or other historical data you might access often. |
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Offline Data Protection
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Data that can be archived is backed up to multiple copies of media such as tape and archived and kept offsite with a trusted data storage company.
This level of protection is suitable for any data that is not
required on a daily basis but needs to be
accessible if required. Data that could be
backed up in this way is data being kept for regulatory, compliance or
archiving purposes. |
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Why You Shouldn't Use Tape-Based Backups For Critical Data |
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Tape Backups have been
the traditional way of protecting the data
on your servers since Disco was King. They
were developed last century for businesses
who saw data protection as optional and not
business critical. Tape-based backup was seen
as a cost effective method, reasonably reliable
and, as long as you didn’t mind spending
an hour or two searching for your data, you
usually got something back – even if
it was last weeks data rather than today’s. |
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BUT…DID YOU KNOW??? |
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Tape
backups fail 20% of the time
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and
worse still… |
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In
Small Businesses or Businesses with remote
offices it is estimated that 50% of tape
based backups fail.
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If
your backup is incomplete for all practical
purposes there is no backup
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Some facts |
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Tape-Based backups are unreliable.
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Recent studies suggest
that over 20% of daily tape based backups
fail. |
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Tape-Based backups are time
consuming. |
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Time is money. Tape based
backup systems take too much time. Too much
time to administer, to run the backup and
to recover your data. |
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Tape-Based backups do NOT
protect all your data. |
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Your Business Data is no
longer in one location. Storage of data at
one centralised location is a thing of the
past. In the modern business environment data
can be stored on mobile devices, laptops or
at remote or home offices. More often than
not the data stored away from the office is
not stored anywhere else. Centralised backup
systems (tape-based or disk-based) cannot
protect this data |
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Tape-Based Data Recovery
often fails. |
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If less than 80% of your
backups work then how likely is it that you
can recover your data? |
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Tape-Based Offsite Data
Storage is a hassle and delays recovery. |
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Offsite tape storage is
great until you need your data back, then
you are relying on a ‘Man in a Van’.
Can your business depend on such a service?
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Tape-based
backups are an unreliable data protection
method unsuited to today’s business
environment where the data you need to protect
can be in the office, in the car or on the
other side of the world. |
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Today, computers are the
foundation of your business and your backups
have to meet new demands such as; |
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Protecting
the foundation of your business |
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Coping
with the fact that data is constantly growing |
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Recognising
that data is a valuable asset |
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Meeting
regulatory requirements |
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You need to be able to
protect and recover data instantly regardless
of its location and not be reliant on outdated
technology. |
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