Are online backups as secure and flexible as tape backups?
It all depends!!
Let’s look at tapes.
You can password protect your backups with most third party backup applications, but most Sys Admins don’t because they feel safe with the tape in their hand, and they think ‘what if I forget the password when I have to restore a server?’
OK, so backup tapes will never fall into the wrong hands. What are the wrong hands? External criminals or internal nuisances trying to look at the wages spreadsheet? Is the new guy tasked with taking the tapes off-site just because he’s new, or because no one else wants the hassle? Does he then leave the odd tape at home or in his car? Would you be as easy going if your company’s data was floating around unencrypted on DVDs or USB sticks?
Do tapes always work? Are the backup logs checked every day? Do you perform test restores? What happens during holidays and weekends?
How many versions can you keep of your data? Online backups from WorldBackups.net will store your revisions for as long as you want.
Now let’s answer myths about online backups (open mind time!)
With online backups from WorldBackups.net you don’t have to worry about tapes or whether or not they are being changed every day.
You can run jobs during the day knowing you don’t have to be around to change tapes for the nightly backup.
You don’t need the outlay of tapes, tape drives or software. A typical small biz solution for 10 users with 50GB of data would cost approx. £1,500 to £2,000 for the software, drive and 30 tapes. We charge 90p to back up 1GB of data. A normal 50GB backup would compress to approx. 20GB, that’s less than £20 a month. Plus you won’t ever have to upgrade your backup solution again (price comparisons calculated in July 2009).
All WorldBackups.net backups can be encrypted (not even we can read your data without the password). Safe to say neither can anyone else who shouldn’t be able to.
Your data will be stored on a minimum of three different systems once a backup has completed.
We backup all versions of Windows, Exchange and SQL, pretty much everything in the Microsoft world.
Are online backups as secure and flexible as tape backups?
Only you can tell what is right for your business. Remember we offer an unlimited 30 day free trial, so you can answer your own concerns.
Anyone can backup, but only heroes can restore!
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