Backup

Disaster recovery planning and preparedness is a fundamental aspect of any business that deals with valuable electronic data.  Unfortunately, it's also one of the most neglected areas in small business networks.  All too many businesses have backup solutions that are either non-existent, incomplete, unreliable or untested.  They go for months or years hoping that nothing will happen or assuming that their backups are working correctly.  Then disaster strikes, a server hard drive fails, a critical file is accidentally deleted or becomes corrupted, a virus wipes out your data, or a fire or natural disaster destroys the building and all your data - including your backup media assuming you have them.  When this happens companies often find the loss of all their data to be a potentially business ending set back. 

Backup solutions must be able to accommodate the capacity of all the data needing backup. They must occur at a frequency that minimizes amount of  lost data in case of disaster and they must provide for off site storage, rotation of media and archival capabilities.  Additionally, backup must be made as simple as possible so as to allow small businesses without full time computer specialist to handle it on their own.  

For all but the smallest of environments no other backup method serves all these functions better than tape based backup.  Tape based solutions combined with business class software can back-up more than 600 GB of data from multiple servers and clients on a single tape in as little as a few hours.  Tapes can be rotated and archived in a manner to ensure that your data can be recovered whether the loss is discovered the same day or months later.  Tapes can be stored offsite to safeguard against fire and natural disaster. 

Linear B Networks assesses your current and anticipated backup storage needs and implements a backup solution that ensures all critical data is backed up daily.  We work with you to decide upon a solution that gets the job done without incurring unnecessary expense.  Software is configured so that all that is required by your users is to change tapes daily.  The backups are scheduled to occur automatically each night.

Clients with monthly service agreements have backup jobs configured to send automatic e-mail reports to our technicians alerting them to any problems as soon as possible.  Additionally, clients with service agreements have their backup solution tested monthly to ensure the data is actually getting backed up and can be safely restored.

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Last modified: 09/23/06