Data Backups

If you don’t want to lose it, back it up!

$1/GB/month + GST

It’s a sobering fact but if a business loses its core data – customer information, invoicing history, key documents and so on, that business has a 68% chance of going out of business completely. There are several ways a business can lose its data:

  1. Accidental loss from deleting or over-writing a document
  2. Computer failure
  3. External attacks from Hackers, scammers, viruses and ransomware

Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and Solid State Drives (SSD) are where your files, documents, photos, music and your operating system are kept. With the HDD especially, it’s not a case of if my hard drive will fail but when it will fail, so it’s vital to have all your important files and folders on a separate daily backup.

Viruses and ransomware can also enter your computer from internet browsing and email attacks. They have the potential to corrupt everything on your computer and turn all your files into illegible garbage.  If you have a good backup then you won’t need to worry but if you have a poor backup or no backup, then sadly everything on your computer may be gone – forever.

If you don’t want to lose it, back it up!

It’s a sobering fact but if a business loses its core data – customer information, invoicing history, key documents and so on, that business has a 68% chance of going out of business completely. There are several ways a business can lose its data:

  1. Accidental loss from deleting or over-writing a document
  2. Computer failure
  3. External attacks from Hackers, scammers, viruses and ransomware

Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and Solid State Drives (SSD) are where your files, documents, photos, music and your operating system are kept. With the HDD especially, it’s not a case of if my hard drive will fail but when it will fail, so it’s vital to have all your important files and folders on a separate daily backup.

Viruses and ransomware can also enter your computer from internet browsing and email attacks. They have the potential to corrupt everything on your computer and turn all your files into illegible garbage.  If you have a good backup then you won’t need to worry but if you have a poor backup or no backup, then sadly everything on your computer may be gone – forever.

Cloud data backups

So how do you back up?  There are several ways – some are better than others, but anything is better than nothing.

 

  1.    Dropbox and One Drive – both have some facility to recover lost or deleted files but they’re collaboration tools and not designed as backups. This is because if a virus gets onto your computer then it will contaminate every file you hold there.
  2.    External Hard Drive backup – this is the traditional plug-in method but it’s manual and time consuming. Its main weakness is how often and how regularly you backup. The longer the time between backups, the more stuff you’re at risk of losing.
  3.    On-line (cloud) Automated Back Up – this is the new standard. Your files are copied to a State-of-the-Art data centre and stored in an encrypted format that no-one can read. Files are backed up every day and we keep a running history of 100 days.  If you lose, delete or over-write a file, we can go back in time and find the original document and restore it back to you. If your computer fails or the office sprinklers go off, simply replace or repair the hardware and we’ll bring back all your files from ‘the cloud’.  It’s the fullest protection there is.

 

Backing up is one of the fundamental ways to save you a lot of future heartache.
Contact us to learn more about ways to protect your business in the event of an unexpected disaster.

Get in touch with us to book your Data Backup