Backup

As a quick thought experiment, the next time you are by your servers, look around, and imagine for a moment that it is gone. And not just the computers. Imagine that the entire building no longer exists. Next, imagine that your job is to get as much of the work that was being done on the server going in some fashion, some where, as soon as possible. What would you do?

By thinking about this, you have taken the first step of disaster recovery. Disaster recovery is the ability to recover from an event impacting the functioning of your organization's data as quickly and completely as possible. The type of disaster may vary, but the end goal is always the same.

Reliant Remote Backup

The remote backup service provides for easy off-site storage of your data, while it remains easily available when you need it.

We provide multiple service options starting from 1GB of data backup to as much as 50GB. One of our network engineers will consult with you to setup your backups, test them and give you instruction on our easy-to-use backup management panel that keeps you in control.

The data is encrypted, compressed and transmitted. After the initial backup of all of your data, Reliant automatically backs up only the new data and changes you've made to the data backed up previously. This incremental backup feature ensures that all of your data is always safe while minimizing bandwidth usage and cost.

Benefits of Online Backup:

Dependable backups - automatic backups means they always get done.

Cost effective - no hardware, tapes or tape management costs.

Reduced risk - your data is securely stored offsite and only you have access to it.

Reliable restoration - disk based restoration is more dependable than tape.

Convenient control - use your standard web browser to backup, monitor and restore your data.

Tape Based

Businesses are putting vital corporate data at risk by relying on tape backup systems in the event of a disaster, according to many data recovery experts. While many businesses diligently back up corporate data on tape-based systems, they rarely check to see whether backups have been successful until it's too late.

Some problems with tape backup are:

Disk to Disk

As the amount of data that organizations have and need to back up has grown, the amount of time it takes to back up all that data to tape has become increasingly inconvenient. Likewise, finding data on tape is a time-consuming process. Consider music recorded to a cassette or reel-to-reel tape. To get to a song that’s at the end of the tape, you have to fast forward through the entire tape. Compare this to a phonograph record or CD, where you can immediately start playing the disc at the place where the desired song is located.

A hard disk is read similarly to a phonograph record or CD; the drive heads can move immediately to the location on the disk where the desired data is stored. Writing to disk is also significantly faster than writing to a tape. And hard disk space has been getting less and less expensive, making it feasible to back up from disk to disk and do away with tape backups altogether. In fact, when you factor in the initial investment in the tape drive along with the tapes themselves and the lifespan of each type of media, as well as administrative overhead, you might find that disk to disk (D2D) backup is more cost effective than tape.

Advantages over tape backup:

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