Backing Up
Even the most reliable systems will fail eventually, so a well-designed back-up strategy is essential to ensure the smooth running of your business.
There are many options for backing up your data, including removable hard drives, tapes, cloud based storage and off-site replication to name but a few.
AlfaBytes can recommend and implement a strong IT backup strategy for your business that will balance the need for fast and comprehensive data recovery with the cost of ownership. We can cater for all scenarios and budgets, offering automated on-site, off-site and high availability backup solutions. In the event of a disaster you will know that your critical business data and computer operating systems are safe and can be recovered in a way that enables your business to continue with the minimum possible down time.
We can offer a variety of ways to backup and protect your systems. Starting with simple USB backup devices, to online cloud based backup and full server replication – either to the cloud or our premises. Simply call or email us and we will give you a free appraisal of your backup strategy.
Disaster Recovery Plan - Case Study
The Senario:
It’s a Monday morning and you get a call from the Police to tell you there has been a fire at your factory. When you arrive on site you find that all that is left is a pile of ash. Even the steel girders have melted. Your fire safe that was on the first floor has fallen to the ground floor and cracked open and the contents including backup disks have melted. Your whole business world has collapsed.
This is how AlfaBytes got you up and running within a few hours of a total loss:
Prior to your disaster we had setup your system with an excellent Disaster Recovery Plan. This involved the following processes.
1. Local backup to USB drive that is taken off site each day
2. Online backup to a cloud based server of business critical data such as accounts
3. Live replication to a Server based at our offices.
Once you have made contact with us we simply ran up the servers based at our premises and enabled you key staff to connect from their home computers and mobile devices. This allowed you to contact all your customers and let them know you were still in business. In the real situation competitors were already contacting your customers to tell them you were out of business!
We then rebuilt a new server for you to use at your temporary premises and moved your data onto this.
You may think there is no need for the local backup or indeed the cloud based backup when you have live replication. However this doesn’t protect you from a data corruption (the corruption would be replicated too). This is where you would reply on a restore from you off site backup of the server structure and then the latest data would be pulled down from the cloud based online backup.