Why off-site backups?
On-site backup solutions are vulnerable to fire, flood, theft, mechanical and human error. Why is this … ? Many users, particularly individuals and small companies who lack the support of their own IT department, backup their documents and data onto tape or disk but then make the mistake of leaving the backup copy in the same location as the original data. This is not safe. If a catastrophic data loss occurs such as theft, fire or flood, the backup copy is likely to be lost at the same time as the original documents. With an off-site backup solution your data is protected from all these forms of data loss. It is advisable to keep a backup copy of your important documents and data in a remote location. This means that you can recover your documents and data in the event of loss of your original documents. And of course, this remote copy also needs to be secure from unauthorised access.
