You were brought on board a month ago as the new IT expert after the old IT expert was let go; it seems he knew just enough to impress the old general manager but nowhere near enough to impress the new operations manager. You were told when she hired you that you’d have a lot of work ahead of you and she wasn’t exaggerating. The network is a mess. There are old accounts and passwords that need to be closed and the main database is a disaster. Worst of all the whole mess is backed up on an old tape drive on a single tape. Or rather it was backed up until the drive failed three months ago.
There is an annual inventory coming up in a month’s time and the everything has to be reliably backed up well before then. Obviously this was set as the main concern. You’re not even certain if the three month old data on the tape is dependable. You have been asked to quickly find a reputable remote server backup system. But, what are the attributes of a really good system?
## Secure
The hallmark of a good remote server backup is security. You will be trusting not only your network data and your entire inventory and sales data but all of your current confidential client information which is being collected every day. You have to know that the encryption provided is going to reflect the sensitive and strategic nature of the data. You must find out about key generation and management as well.
## Thoroughly redundant
You need to know that your backup database is being stored on redundant servers in discrete locations in order to ensure that it won’t be susceptible to catastrophic failures such as fires and earthquakes.
## Quick and easy to use.
Modern server backup systems should be easy to run. Once they’re in position they need to be easy to maintain and operate. More importantly in the event of a system failure or data loss the recovery process needs to be straight forward and simple. You have to know that you have easy access to your backup day or night.
## Affordable
Like anything else, you need to know what exactly you are paying for. Are you paying for space on the servers? Are you paying based on encrypted data or unencrypted? Are you paying for data transfer? You need a crystal clear contract that details the fee structure and how it will change over time if your data needs increase.
Remote server backup and recovery systems are a big business nowadays. The competition is intense and so it’s really worth shopping around for the solution that will work best for your company. Say goodbye to ratty old tape drives and breathe a little easier knowing that if anything goes wrong at the office your data is secure and accessible.
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