Offsite data backup is now required by every human being; Some time ago it was only available to corporate institutions that had multiple locations, high connectivity speeds, and very high budgets. Today the cost of hardware and high-speed connectivity has come down drastically, resulting in a huge increase in the number of companies offering backups at remote locations. For negotiation purposes, we can call it jumping on the bandwagon.
Increased competition is good for the consumer, to an extent, I agree, but not at the cost of cutting corners and jeopardizing the security of your data. We all know and agree that a company's data is its most important asset, and such an asset is not an option to lose or give to someone in your competition. So please be careful where you store your data.
The general idea of offsite backup is a good one, after all it has a very low proportional implementation cost and the right system must be fully automated as the cost of ownership is also very low. Unlike tape backup it is very scalable, you can start small and develop into a larger solution when you need to with zero disruption but you have to be with the right offsite company in the first place.
In today's data-centric environment even small companies may have more than one server, for example, a server for Microsoft Exchange / Lotus Notes, a server for Microsoft SQL / Oracle / MySQL, and possibly a file and print server, or Probably a single server that performs all the tasks. Smaller companies may still use older legacy Unix-based or Novel-based systems or consider migrating to low-cost Linux environments. What do you currently use or what will you have to use to use your offsite backup solution in the future. Please check if you ever use a backup company, make sure that they are always developing their products for the future, for the future of your companies.
Getting data to an offsite location is the easiest bit, anyone can click and drag it to the FTP site to optimize their backup and more importantly, your recovery time ensures that your data is local or Is compressed at source. The most important element of any data transfer is security, making sure your data is encrypted before it is transmitted and remains encrypted in storage, if so only your organization will have access to your data.
In which environment is your data stored? There is no point in transferring your most important asset to another location, to ensure that it is completely secure, the data should only be returned to a class 1 data center that has the most security and security measures, hardware. Must be clustered. There is no single point of failure within that data center and for additional security and peace of mind the entire data center and hardware must be replicated in real-time to each other in a different location.
Imagine that your local data is replicated every night or whenever you desire a secure remote location in the UK and then in real-time replicated to another data center in a different country.
In the end this entire process should be as efficient as possible. It should be completely secure, fully automated, ensuring that your employees are focused on revenue-generating tasks, regardless of what your system is doing, open files that are able to be backed up. Should support and it should be capable of incremental backup, after all it is not a matter — changing a file that has not been accessed for over a year.
So after reading this article I hope that it has given you a chance to think and understand why the cheapest offsite backup solution is hardly the best.
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