Continuous Data Back-up and Recovery
Today, more than ever, data back-up is a crucial element of your IT infrastructure. The ability to recover from a data loss event and restore your information will save time, money and a great deal of headaches.
Here at DataPoint we offer data back-up solutions from our Baltimore data center to take this responsibility off your hands by providing reliable back-up options and support during recovery from any type of data loss event.
What are My Data Back-up Options?
- Unstructured – Unstructured data back-up is most likely what your IT Department did years ago. At the end of the day, your IT Department was tasked with creating back-up files on CR-R or DVD-R media. This antiquated version of a back-up system contained minimal amounts of information regarding when the data was backed up and what was included on the disc. Reliable recovery from this type of back-up is questionable at best.
- System Imaging – A data back-up plan based on system imaging will provide a complete picture of your data from one specific moment in time. This option allows the IT Staff to restore the system to a known, good configuration but can quickly become cumbersome if done regularly and if not done regularly, can cause a distinct loss of data.
- Differential Back-up – A differential back-up solution organizes data to determine what information has changed since the last back-up was performed and records only that data. This type of back-up reduces the amount of memory space required over a System Imaging option but doesn’t allow you to quickly back-up the entire system if your data loss event is catastrophic.
- Continuous Data Protection – Continuous data protection will not only provide a back-up that is easy to restore but permits you to back-up data in a real-time format. The advantages of this data back-up solution are many. The system is fully backed up and the live back-up periodically synchronizes with the full back-up to ensure a reliable recovery. With a live back-up feature, not even an hour, let alone a day or week of data is lost. If a natural or human disaster strikes or the server fails, the entire system restoration can be deployed in a short amount of time.
What are the Advantages of an Offsite Data Back-up Repository?
- Reducing Redundant Back-ups – A full back-up of the system is performed and then a monitoring system implemented that will detect any data or configuration changes, as they happen, and provide instantaneous back-up of the system differences. Memory space is not wasted backing up redundant copies of information yet a full system recovery is available when required.
- Disaster Recovery – Whether Mother Nature takes your system down, there is a human error or a server failure, you data is safely stored in an offsite location and ready immediately for restoration.
- Cost Savings – Most company IT departments are already overloaded with the day-today operations so monitoring and managing a live data backup repository is cumbersome and keeps the IT staff from ensuring smooth daily operation. Instead of hiring additional staff and equipment, your offsite provider offers an easy way for you to save that cost.
- Data Security - Data is encrypted before it is sent to the back-up facility and easily decrypted upon restoration. A few clicks and your system is deployed in a safe, secure manner.
- No Performance Drop – Backups that are run at an offsite facility take place in the background when the user’s system is idle so there is no performance impact. An in-house continuous back-up often means a lag or drop in performance as the server is busy recording the changes that have been detected in the system.
Making DataPoint Your Back-up Provider
DataPoint offers an affordable, secure and reliable data backup solution with data management services to provide full local data backups, offsite data replication and disaster recovery assistance for companies in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and the surrounding Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania area. We prevent catastrophic data loss by providing a cloud repository that shelters your data from loss that can be experienced when all your information is stored in a single location.
Our data center offers a live back-up system the enables quick and easy recovery of data in the event of a disaster. We take the load off of your IT department by providing back-up and support from our Operations Support Center 24 hours-a-day, seven days a week. Our services also include monitoring and management of data in a secure environment with full visibility to your company’s authorized personnel. Contact us today for your quote and experience true piece of mind.
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