subject: The Various Ways Of Setting Up A Simplistic And Secure Offsite Back Up [print this page] If you need to be able to recover data within a short period of time then you should implement an online backup plan. There are a large number of professional backup services companies who can provide offsite backup for both residential and business needs. For a monthly, quarterly or yearly fee you can obtain professional backup with technical support for data such as music, movies, photos and personal documents.
Businesses can make use of secure backup by using offsite backup companies who provide data encryption requiring a password for access. With an internet connection and the password you can access the data whenever you require it. Professional backup services range in the amount of backup space provided. The cost for an offsite backup plan will increase with an increase in the amount of specified space it has.
A backup plan has four primary stages. You need to determine the specific data to be backed up. Not all your data will need backing up, so choosing to do so is a waste of money as well as very time-consuming.
The next step is to decide how you are going to back up data. Besides remote secure backup of data which can be accessed whenever you want via the internet, there are also other means of offsite backup. For instance with disk-to-disk backup the data is copied to a removable or external disk. Further methods include backing up via disk-to-tape or via disk-to-disk-to-tape. For secure backup the tapes and disks need to be stored and managed offsite from where the data is being backed up. The expenses associated with disk-to-tape and disk-to-disk-to-tape backup methods are greater than with remote and disk-to-disk backup because of consumable and tape library management costs. The longer a disk is used for disk-to-disk backup however, the more chance there is that a lot of data will be lost through disaster related to the data centre, such as fire. With regards to remote offsite backup plans, they may take a lot of time to set up and performance will be directly affected by the particular bandwidth which is associated with each plan.
The third stage in a backup plan is to schedule and test whether the backing up procedure performs well and then fourthly to schedule and test the plan's recovery procedure. Whatever the level of secure backup you need, a professional backup services company can assist you with each stage of the backup plan.
Creating an offsite backup plan can initially seem confusing and daunting but it is actually very simple to implement an effective and secure plan that fits in with your requirements and your budget.
