The most obvious way to protect
your information is to back it up. Though this may seem like
a simple solution, many businesses overlook some fundamental
requirements that extend beyond sticking a tape into a drive
on your network server. Backup is about more than hardware
and software. It's about a well thought-out plan that
incorporates the most effective backup practices to make
sure you don't find yourself up a creek in your time of
need. In addition to preparing for the worst, there are many
aspects of backing up data that can actually make your
operation run more efficiently, reducing downtime and
additional costs. Providing solutions to businesses like
yours since 1987, The Ronin Group has a long history of
providing solutions that will protect your information and
help make your backup work for you. The following are some
examples of the type of backup services we install and
support for our customers. Near-Line storage - Near-line
storage refers to material that is stored in a manner that
is more cost effective than on-line storage, but at the
expense of a time delay required to retrieve it. An example
of this would be a financial institution storing historical
customer records incrementally onto CDs and then removing
the information from the on-line database. A separate CD
changer is used to retrieve the appropriate CD if that
information is requested again before the CD is ultimately
moved into physical storage. Removable Media - Tape, CD, DVD,
magneto-optical, etc. There are many different tape formats
and a growing number of CD, DVD, and MO formats and options.
These all reflect the options that are available for
primary, secondary, and near-line storage or backup. Remote
Backup - Backing up your information directly to an off-site
location. This could be to a server in another branch of
your business, or it could be to a separate company who will
"host" your data for you and keep it accessible to you
should you need to recover it. Disaster Recovery - Very
simply, this is contingency planning. Think about what would
happen if some disaster destroyed your critical servers and
all of your resources in one location. To further complicate
things, assume that your primary IT person is not available
(affected by the disaster or away on vacation). How will you
recover and how quickly.
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