Backup
People often forget the fact that computers are not fool proof and while computer components have become more reliable as technology has progressed, you would be amazed at how often critical data and information is lost.
Hard drives can crash/develop errors, laptops can be stolen, or be dropped and rendered useless. To ensure that no essential company or personal data is ever lost a regular backup of all important information should be made. This is not just relevant to business laptops but also laptops used for personal use. As more information we store is digital, we are seeing unfortunate scenarios with people not backing up their data and losing irreplaceable memories, such as family holiday photos, which are lost forever. To ensure you are never in this situation it3000 can help to provide backup systems safe guarding you and your business.
We utilise various methods with from Tapes and External Hard Drives to online services. All of these allow you to backup and store data onsite, offsite and remotely. Having backups stored offsite are key as if your company’s premises was to suffer any unfortunate incidents all of your critical data is safe and secure.
The importance of backing up your data cannot be stressed enough and when an incident does occur and the thought finally does come to mind, it is normally too late to do anything about it and recovering data at such a late stage could lead to spending large sums of money with dedicated recovery experts.
Whether it’s for your business or personal use, you can’t go wrong backing up your data. Dependent on how often your data is modified you should create a backup at least once a week, but most of our clients opt for a daily backup allowing any files or emails to be recovered with no more than 1 days alterations lost.
With Microsoft’s range of Windows Server operating systems we are also able to provide automated backup/recovery solutions where files can have snapshots taken at scheduled intervals throughout the day allowing previous versions of files to be viewed and even restored after they have been saved and overwritten. The ‘shadow copies’ feature allows users to go back and view previous revisions of a document and then choose to restore that revision of the file. The end result is similar to a versioning file system, allowing any file to be retrieved as it existed at the time any of the snapshots was made.
