Offline Backup Storage is the safest solution for your archive
20-10-2016 - in Merak newsletter
Making backups is like drawing up contracts: It is only at the ‘difficult’ moments that they prove their worth. More, even. That’s when everything must be watertight. Otherwise the whole thing would be a waste of time. Therefore, choose the safest and most suitable backup method for your digital archives and all your other data. Because only then can you continue to work really unhindered after a computer crash.
External physical backup
Why is Offline Backup Storage so reliable? Because you’re keeping a physical carrier with digital data externally and in the best conditions.
After a crash, you call up the carriers.
At Merak, a courier will then leave and deliver your tapes or discs on site to the person responsible.
That person restores the data to your system and then you're back to work.
Secure and faster than an online solution.
Because if we’re talking about several gigabytes of data, it would take an 'eternity' to download it again.
Extracting data from a disk or tape is significantly faster – even if you include the transport time.
And an external system isn’t sensitive to hacking.
Which is a real threat for online backups.
Secure specialist work
Continuity is one thing, confidentiality is another if you choose online preservation.
What guarantees does your provider offer to ensure the privacy of your business and your customers?
Are the online connections offered protected against cyber intrusions?
And are your disks or tapes kept in a room where no one can search them unsolicited?
Trust your digital archive only to specialists with the right hardware and software to protect the content to the maximum.
Ask your provider if he can provide user statistics.
You need it to check who requested specific documents and when exactly that happened.
That way, you know what's happening to your data at any time – because that's crucial to ensuring privacy.
At Merak, these security measures are standard in every solution.
Keeping it affordable
“All well and good, but isn’t archiving everything via Offline Backup Storage expensive?” Well, it’s not that bad. But you can push the price down a bit more by organising your data in order of importance. Not all information is equally ‘indispensable’. Therefore, choose a backup system with proportionate security guarantees. For some data, an online solution might be cheaper. But do archive vital files with the highest level of protection. On disk or tape, for example, in Merak’s e-bunker. The metres-thick, concrete walls protect your computer data from any magnetic radiation or physical attack.
Demand transparent conditions of sale
Is an online backup still the best solution? Then find a provider that will provide you with transparent terms of sale. Because you have plenty of choice when it comes to companies that offer this service. But are they also able to deliver your data ready for use when needed?
Educational case study
Many IT companies today present online backups as the answer to all your problems. Because you don't need any additional hardware. And because the data remains permanently accessible – whenever and wherever you want. Yet it's not all that fantastic. Take the case of a current Merak customer who was experiencing severe problems with his then provider. He signed a four-year contract. The provider would periodically and completely automatically make an online backup of his computer system. The sales contract guaranteed 480,000 euros in damages should it go wrong. But … it would not go wrong, because the provider provided twenty IT staff to fix every problem immediately.
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