Backup Solutions

It takes less than a second to completely destroy years worth of your valuable records. How long would it take you to re-enter all the data that your very livelihood depends on? Weeks? Months?

Would this be more than a simple inconvenience and a claim to your insurance company? Or would you go into a blind panic knowing that your data backup solution is little ‘shaky’ at best?

The truth of the matter is, most people hate to think of such a scenario and put off sorting out some kind of data backup solution until tomorrow. We are not trying to ‘scare monger’ here – these things really do happen.

The backing-up of data, however it is done, is for many SME’s rightly the cornerstone of their business continuity and disaster recovery plans. It is however fraught with difficulties as it is one of the few IT processes that requires frequent human intervention and often relies on media which has a relatively short longevity.

It is a sobering thought, that even if your daily back-ups have a success rate of 99%, you will still have 3 failures a year. It is our experience that problems with tape, virtual tape and disk-based back-ups are one of the most common reasons for people to call Ping IT Services.

Typically, we would review your objectives and your current procedures and then provide an appropriate solution. For tape back-ups we would ensure the reliability of tape media, recommend an effective quantity of tapes to be used (in a pool for effective backing-up) and train staff on how to best verify the back-up log to ensure completion; we would also monitor storage growth.

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