Offsite Backup Services

Author: Sig Kappel

What are you waiting for? Prevention is the key to reduce the amount of money, time and stress when it comes to computer data loss. I work in a tech firm that handles all types of clients, all too often we get someone walking in with a data loss issue and they don't have any type of planed recourse.
We do what we can to help those that have lost their data, and it ends up costing them more time and money to do a restore then if they just backed up there data in the first place. Sometimes it's a lost cause, we can't do anything about the data loss; the hard-drive may be completely shot, or they realized they lost a piece of data too late to recover it.
So unfortunately many will learn the lesson the hard way, and now that they do their ears are open to the idea of using an offsite backup service. You can think of it as insurance, but better then insurance, because in the situation of data loss your data will be completely reconstructed; there's no such thing as a deductable, it's all there.
Choose an Offsite Backup Service that encrypts your data on site (on your computer/workstation) and uploads it to the retention server. You should be able set the backup schedule anywhere from intra-day to monthly (it depends how much you work on your precious data). Most offsite backup services will provide you with the ability to backup your data on demand.
So when the enviable happens and you have lost your data your business is dependent on, you won't be left scratching you head. Your Offsite backup service will have you back up and working with your data in no time.

About the Author: Sig Kappel is a Computer Engineering Technologist and Lead architect of the JetBack Offsite Backup Service. You'll find more information on Jetback Offsite Backup Services at http://www.jetback.com