The Importance of Local Data Backup

Are you willing to lose your business over not having your critical data and information copied or backed up?  Well, let Fusion1Consulting explain the importance of backing up your critical data and information!

All computers (whether they are workstations or servers) are subject to catastrophic failure!  Eventually, all businesses will be confronted by some type of data loss either due to acts of nature (i.e. lightning), electrical instability of simple hardware failure.  Either way, the loss of a businesses data can lead to the complete failure of a business.  With today's solutions to data loss, feel free to call Fusion1 to see just how affordable and easy it is to structure and secure your companies critical data.

Different Types of Backup Hardware

• Flash Drives

These flash or pen drives do work but are easily removed and can easily be dropped or lost.  (Not recommended for catastrophic data backups.)

• Tape Drive Backup Systems

Tape storage is in a class all by itself.  It is an older technology still used by larger companies to back up there data onto a magnetic storage medium.  Although these systems tend to work fairly well, there is a curtain amount of maintenance that is needed to keep these systems running at peak performance.  Maintenance such as head cleaning on a routine basis, storage medium needing to be replaced because of wear and tear, not to mention the medium stretching and loss of data on the backup medium.  (not recommended for small to medium sized companies that have no on-site staff.)

• External Hard Drive Backup (USB or FIREWIRE)

We have found that external hard disk drives whether they be USB or Firewire are the best bang for the buck.  These low-cost, Highly efficient, massive sized storage mediums are dependable, fast and just seem to work very well in most environments.  Their transfer rates are very fast and data can be randomly accessed.  Most of our clients use this medium as a part of there backup plan. 

• Cloud Backup or (Remote Backup)

Cloud backup is a fairly new concept to most people.  Like anything else in the technology world, there are a great many services available on the internet including a very secure and relatively fast form of data backup.  Most of these companies run highly secure connections and allow you to backup data at a fairly low cost.  Even though we do recommend on-site backup, on-site backup mediums are susceptible to the same failures as the systems that they are attached to (i.e. lightning, hardware failure and corruption.)  These companies run massive data storage servers and they back their servers the same way we do.

• Fusion1Consulting Catastrophic Backup Plan

Fusion1Consulting uses and recommends a dual layer backup plan with both on-site and cloud backup integrated in a companies data loss plan.  We simply believe in redundancy, redundancy and more redundancy when it comes to our clients crucial data.  As I explain to all our clients, "A server may have cost between $1,000.00 to $4,000.00 dollars but it may have 1-4 million worth of data parked on a fragile medium called a hard drive or multiple hard drives."

Remote Data Backup