Date: 17 Nov 11

Online Backup Proving Itself Against Typical Backup Methods

With the amount of people using the internet, laptops and desktop computers, the need for archives and backups has never been more crucial. Anyone using one of the aforementioned knows the relief that comes from having a good back up, to restore files, when a serious system malfunction occurs.

System recovery and the recovery of files have not always been easy in the past. Many users have had difficulty when recovery their files and the more complicated file recovery systems were reserved exclusively for large corporations with a large enough budget to cover the complicated scheme.

Not so long ago, businesses were still using CDs to back up their crucial documents. This is a long and arduous process, with multiple discs needed to run entire backups. This method is not only costly and time consuming, but either requires users to replace their backed up files to utilise the same discs, or use an entire batch of new discs to create new backups.

Processes like this, and similar to this also require the user to be present to watch over the backup, change the discs and make sure they are scratch and smudge free.

However, in the past year alone, more and more people are signing up to use online backup. The predicted amount of users who signed up for online backup over this summer jumped from 45,000 to 122,000 users alone.

With the evolution currently underway in the storage devices area, it’s becoming harder to obtain a cheaper large storage device; computer users have to make do with smaller storage devices, or shelling out lots of money to keep their entire catalogue backed up.

Despite the cost issues, another big issue that people fail to acknowledge is that backup drives are usually kept within the same proximity as the desktop or laptop that is being backed up. In the event of an accident, such as a fire or a flood the external hard drives have the potential to be damaged, along with the main computer. This then makes the backups pointless and void.

Online backup thus provides the best alternative to typical backup storage; acting like a remote backup server, it allows users to copy their documents to a third party and have their files backed up, encrypted and protected until the time comes that they may need to recover them.

Information is closely guarded and not accessible by anyone but your company and the third party who are protecting your documents; accessibility is available worldwide however, allowing companies with employees scattered in various countries and locations to easily gain access to the documents, as long as they have the necessary log in information. This makes the transfer of information between different branches of one company much more reliable and faster – as well as making sure all documents are stored, securely together, for an easy backup to maintain a company’s future in the event of any disaster