Thursday, December 18, 2014

Backup Solutions that Keep Your Data Safe

As a result of Information Technology, the business nowadays generates data in such a huge quantity. Therefore, there is always a risk of data being misplaced or lost due to different reasons.

The solution to the problem is to keep a backup of data at other locations.

In this article different data backup solutions are described to keep your important and confidential data safe.

4 commonly used data storage solutions


1. Direct attached storage: This is abbreviated as DAS. These refer to storage devices that connect to a system or a server directly by means of a USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 peripheral port. One drawback of using DAS is that you require copying data by ad-hocs or batch backups.

2. Network attached storage: Abbreviated as NAS. This storage device is directly connected to the network.  It serves as an assistant to file server and supports numerous storage drives. Some NAS model presents the ability to coordinate selected folders or volumes with another remote NAS that supports the same capability.

3. Disaster Protected Storage: As the name implies, Disaster Protected Storage — which can come in the form of DAS or NAS — is made as a disaster protecting storage. For instance ioSafe, which claims that with the help of its disaster protected storage appliances it can resist fire up to 30 minutes and complete immersion in water for many days.

4. Online storage: While it may appear spontaneous to put all online storage into the similar class, there are essentially two different types of assistance given by such storage. First one is online data storage platforms like Dropbox and another is online data storage companies  that assist customers and corporate to copy or backup data in the cloud.

Instead of the usual method of taking backups on an external hard drive, it is recommended to use an online backup service that keeps data on the servers.

According to Simpson, "Online backup is a real alternative to local backups. It is a popular option to storing backups on a hard drive”.

After reading this, you can keep  the huge quantum of your personal or official data safe. If you are still confused, you can call the online technical experts.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for your great post! Here I get the informative though about backup solution that keeps our data safe at another location.

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