Data Backup
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Please Call us on 09 529 2277 to go over your backup process.
Beta Computers now has an online backup product called World NZ Online Backup Click for more information
How often should I backup?
Backup frequencies depend primarily on how fast/much your data changes
and how important it is to you. If you only add and change a few files
per week, a monthly full backup would be fine. Also keep in mind that
something is better than nothing. It’s better to have a better to have a
week-old or day-old backup than a month-old backup, month-old backup
than a year-old backup, and a year-old backup than nothing at all.
This is really the first thing to decide when planning a backup
strategy. Businesses typically do weekly full backups on the weekends
and nightly incremental backups Monday through Friday. The extreme
approach is to do a full weekly backup, duplicate it, store the copies
each in separate locations (different town is even better), and then do
nightly incremental backups. That way, even should some disaster happen
(such as the building been destroyed with one set of backups), the
business is still never more than one week out of date.
Checklist for yourself:
-Do I backup? If you are not backing up your business is always one step away from disaster
-How often do I backup and is consistent? This means the backup is scheduled at same time every time
-What software am I using to help backup? It maybe the software that was installed along with the backup device
-Do I store my backup offsite? For example taking it home and leaving it there and swapping at regular intervals
-If I use a laptop is the backup stored in the same bag as the laptop? Laptops are at greater risk of been stolen or lost and having your backup with it is not a safe option for your important data.
-What device do I use to backup to? (i.e. Flash drive, Tape, DVD)
-If I lost a week’s worth of data including email and invoicing how many hours of work have I lost?
Even at the home user level you have important data too. You take hundereds of photos every year of events and family. We have seen people come to our workshop that have lost all their photos. One customer lost 5 years worth of digital photos. These photos included the first 4 years of their son life, Sisters wedding, Christmas and holidays. This was a disaster and not a nice thing to tell them. It does not matter if it is business or personal data it is all important.
Please Call us on 09 529 2277 to go over your backup process.
Offsite vs. Onsite
On-site backups are ones you keep on the same premises, and off-site
backups are ones that are stored somewhere else. Keeping your backups in
the same building doesn’t do any good if it is destroyed by fire or
earthquake and keeping them in the same city doesn’t do any good if that
town is wiped out by a massive flood or other disaster. Of course,
dealing with off-site backups are annoying because you have to get the
data from here to there somehow, and then you need to be able to get it
back quickly if the need arises, especially if off-site backups are the
only option you are using.
Online Backup
Beta Computers/World NZ now has an online backup product.
Experience true peace of mind. World NZ’s automated backup eliminates problems caused by traditional methods. Whether you have one or many thousands of users, World NZ Online Backup easily scales to secure the smallest and largest businesses.
You won't give backup another thought
World NZ Online Backup protects your corporate files against loss and damage without any effort from your side. By preserving your data in multiple state-of-the-art storage facilities nationwide, World NZ Online Backup protects you against location-specific disasters. Your data is encrypted for privacy using 256-bit AES, and then transferred over the Internet from your system to our storage centers using 1024-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. Once in storage, your data is monitored 24/7/365 by expert technicians.
Manual methods are risky and costly
CDs/DVDs, USB hard drives and tapes are easily scratched, lost or stolen. Slow and time consuming, they burden your IT staff and limit your total storage capacity. Sorting through tapes and CDs to restore your data creates costly delays in company workflow.
Save time and money
Don't waste your team's time and budget on manual backup methods. World NZ Online Backup runs automatically on the schedule you choose. Enjoy no startup fees and only pay for what you use - a low monthly fee per server and per GB of data stored.
The only second-by-second protection
Hard drive failures happen within moments, so you can't afford to backup only once a day. World NZ’s continuous technology backs up files the second they are created or modified, 24/7/365. Ever overwrite a file or forget to hit save? World NZ Online Backup takes 'snap-shot's of your work so you can go back and find the right version.
Efficient is smarter
World NZ’s acute detection software only preserves changes made since your last backup, so you don't waste time or space resaving files that haven't changed. We ensure that backups are as condensed as possible to save you the bandwidth and money you would have spent on bigger storage.
Get protected today
With one call to (09) 529 2277, our technicians can have you up and running on New Zealand's most reliable backup software today, all done remotely. World NZ Online Backup automatically supports any database, application and operating system you use, so you and your IT administrator can expect to get started effortlessly.
Companies without proactive backups are likely to go out of business within 2 years of a major data loss.*
* Study by the National Archives and Records Administration