Pick a store in the mall, a grocery store, a bank, a clothes boutique, a restaurant, or even a hair salon. Go into your room or your office. Go to work or to school. What do you see in common? Chances are, in every place you visit, more often than not, you see a computer, whether someone’s hard at work on it, playing a game on it, or whether it’s smart and fully automated, doing the job of the perfect employee. Needless to say, nearly everything today relies on the sophisticated technology of a working computer.

So, what if something happens and causes the oh-so-important computer to crash? Does all life stop? Does the mall store close down, or you take a day off from work or school? Not with a backup it doesn’t. So while a day off from work or school sounds nice, it’s not worth the headache you get when you come back and find that everything has to start from scratch. Backups, specifically, offsite data backups are an integral part to the disaster recovery most businesses, and even individuals, need to prepare for.

With statistics showing that 66% of all computer users experience accidental data loss, 1:2 odds of slipping through the cracks aren’t encouraging, which is all the more reason to invest in offsite data backup services. You no longer have to worry about a fire, storm or theft in your workplace erasing all your business or personal data, not if you’ve got an offsite data backup somewhere only you can get it back from.

So just how do you keep such backups safe? Well, there are a number of ways to do so. The simplest way would be to backup everything you need on another disc, compact, hard or otherwise and stash it at say, a friend or an aunt’s house. Another would be to use a web-based offsite data backup service. Though these services often charge monthly or annual fees, their prices are more than reasonable considering they provide multiple offsite backups, data encryption and automated scheduled backups. And since you don’t have to purchase your own hardware, you save yourself not just time, but money as well.

So instead of a repeat of the Credit Lyonnais incident in 1997 Paris, where a bank caught on fire and employees braved the flames to rescue computers and tapes just to keep the bank going, invest in a good data backup plan. Whether it’s for personal or company use, you can’t go wrong with offsite data backup to keep your files around.

Tagged with:

Filed under: Articles

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!