What is Offsite Backup?
Offsite backup is something that could save your company’s life. If you have a large amount of data — financial or otherwise — that you can’t afford to do without, then you need offsite backup. It can have simple or complicated functionality, but its most basic use is safeguarding your data from accidental or intentional destruction. Basically, offsite backup is what it sounds like: You have a backup set of data that is nowhere near your main place of business. Some or all of the data that flows from computer to computer each and every day is also stored on a server that is physically far away from your office. That way, in the event of a catastrophe, you will not lose every shred of your important data. You control how often your data is transmitted to the offsite backup. Most companies make a total backup of their data every day or every week, depending on the amount of data they use on a daily or weekly basis. Some companies, particularly large financial institutions, might make sev
An offsite backup is a secure, simple and affordable alternative to a traditional tape backup solution. Tape backup solutions can sometimes be effective, but they need upfront investment, ongoing maintenance and internal staff to maintain and operate them. The word ‘hassle’ best describes tape backups – especially during a crisis when key data is to be recovered without delay. Offsite backup is a modern yet proven solution to this niggling and critical process. Today, most organisations are clear about the need to protect their most important asset – their data. Human error, a PC crash, a virus, malicious actions, flood, fire, theft or loss of a laptop – can all too easily put this data and therefore the business at risk.
OffSite Backup is a Windows based application that has one interactive interface and one scheduled task interface. The interactive interface is used to identify and mark your critical data, and to schedule your data backups at appropriate days of the week or month, and times during the day. Once you have selected your back up schedule and identified all your critical data files, you save that configuration as a scheduled task. You can, and are encouraged to have multiple scheduled tasks based on your individual data protection needs. During the installation and configuration of the OffSite Backup client, we work with you every step of the way to determine the most efficient data sets and backup schedules. We also invite you to use our guide to “Best Practices for Data Protection” such that you can educate yourself relative to your data protection needs. During offpeak hours, the OffSite Backup software contacts our servers and begins the backup process. During the process your critical
An offsite backup solution is a secure, simple and affordable solution to backup important data. Offsite Backup solutions are used by tens of thousands of organisations in the UK. Organizations of all sizes with an Internet connection can benefit using an offsite backup solution. At eUKhost, we use Rsync back up software tool which is one of the easiest ways to backup your important data. How does Rysnc work? Rsync is one of the best backup software tool. It was originally designed to replace rcp, the vulnerable old Unix remote copy program. Because of its sophisticated means of synchronizing and transferring files and directories, rsync is widely used for mirroring Web sites. rsync transfers only the changes in files, using the devilishly clever rsync algorithm. It calculates difference without needing both files to be present. Rsync greatly improves efficiency when compared to traditional remote backup methods. By synchronizing only those files that have changed since the last backup
