Data Backup & Disaster Recovery

Why ITN Ltd Data Backup?

Why onsite data backup is the right way to protect your business

Data backup is important. As computers get increasingly powerful, they can store a concomitant quantity of data (i.e., loads) – but they’re also more prone to falling over, and if they fall over before you’ve managed to do any data backup then you, and your business, are in serious trouble.
What happens is this. You store tons of data on your super-fast, memory rich machine. Its complexity reveals itself to be frailty when it experiences an irrecoverable system crash and six months’ worth of accounts, business files and data bite the dust. That kind of thing can sink a company forever – not to mention play merry hell with the taxman. The temptation not to do regular data backup – I’ve got a brand new, super duper machine, I’ll do my data backup next week – gets more and more overwhelming, the better one’s machine. And the potential for disaster grows ever greater.
Really, all businesses should be running data backup on a daily basis. In today’s time- and resource-pressured world, who has time to recover even one day’s worth of lost work? The last thing a company should do before it closes down for the night is make sure its data backup routine has started, dumping copies of all business servers and hard drives into discrete, protected and difficult-to-destroy media.
This kind of data backup is called onsite data backup – it encompass any kind of safety routine that transfers data onto physical media other than that in which it was created. So an onsite data backup routine might involve copying hard drives onto CD-ROM, DVD, or tape, and storing those items in a place separate from the location in which the original data exists. That way, a company has instant, daily access to its most recently backed up data. Onsite data backup is generally preferable to offsite data backup (where company data is backed up and stored in locations other than the site where that company runs its business) because of the time delay involved in retrieving data that has been backed up off site.
One of the most effective methods of onsite data backup is email backup. Email backup simply involves emailing oneself (preferably to an external email account) copies of important files. That way, if the server on which that information is stored in-house goes down, a user can retrieve the latest versions of the info from the email servers of (say) Yahoo! or Google. That said, of course, there are security concerns raised by performing data backup through use of email accounts that fall outside a company’s purview – which is where the employment of outside agencies, who can best advise on good practice for data backup, comes in.
Employing an external agency to advise on data backup is almost always the best way to generate ironclad data safety measures. External agencies can see the whole of your company’s data processes in an impartial light, which fits them well to offer solid tactical advice on how to perform workable data backup without interrupting your vital systems or the daily running of your business: or compromising security by making information potentially available to outside sources. An external agency like ITN Ltd will come in, make a balanced assessment of your data backup needs, and offer practical advice on how to achieve the best data backup practices without disrupting normal operations.

Why ITN Ltd Disaster recovery?

Keeping your business safe from harm

What will your business do in the event of a data disaster? Our IT services include comprehensive data recovery and disaster recovery/prevention packages. We can remotely mirror your data, to ensure you have an up to date “Image” of your business in the event of a total hardware failure. Or we can come in to a business that’s already suffered a crippling data loss, and forensically retrieve the vast majority of your important files and programs using a temporary operating system.

We’ve got your back

Don’t know when you last backed up your vital business information? Don’t worry. Our remote IT service includes regular data backups, which we can set to run automatically so you don’t have to do anything at all. Backing up data is the most efficient way to deal with a disaster: if you already have your vital transactions, records, invoices and orders mirrored on our servers, you can effectively continue trading until your own hardware has been checked, cleaned and rebuilt where necessary.

We know what data means to your business

Our engineers know exactly what data means for your business – and what happens to small and medium sized businesses when they experience a catastrophic data loss. Prevent yourself from becoming another statistic. Talk to us today about putting measures in place to safeguard your company against future data problems.

Circumstances bringing you down? We’ll get you up and running again in no time

Malicious attacks, fire and theft are all big causes of interrupted data service. Our disaster recovery packages are designed to ensure that you have virtually no downtime while we diagnose and fix the problem. With an ongoing IT management contract, we can keep a copy of your business offsite. While our engineers assess the damage to your onsite system, we activate your mirrored system, giving you the tools you need to keep trading.

We’ll protect you against data loss you can’t see

Being protected against data disaster is the best cure of all. That means looking into your hardware as well as your software and backup options. If, for example, you’re overloading servers with too much data, the heat spikes caused by overworked CPUs can set off a temporary shutdown. If you lose orders that were in transit between your website and your internal systems at the time of the power down, you’ll never know.
Our network engineers will recommend switches, cooling systems and network design solutions to combat the risk of unseen data loss.

Remote data protection can keep your business moving

By remotely protecting your data (usually with a regular copy of your business, which is made automatically and stored in the servers at our own secure location), we’re able to immediately take up the slack in the event of a temporary or permanent data disaster. Our remote monitoring software can even warn us in advance of an impending problem, allowing us to head off potentially serious issues before they ever develop. Talk to us about our full IT services today

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