Backup or Else Monday, June 11th, 2007
How confident are you that your computer systems are getting backed up CORRECTLY? If you would like to talk to someone about this topic. Please call 01606-841587
Our clients all use servers, these all have either DDS tape backup systems or NAS (Network Attached Storage) for backing up their data.
A Backup is only going to be any use to you if it actually works.
We have been working in technology management for 10 years and have seen countless examples of automated backup systems that have failed.
Examples of Failure
DDS tapes are only good for 150 uses, so they wear out eventually. If your tapes are 5 years old do they still work?
Another issue is illegal file names and paths that can cause a backup to fail.
When you leave it up to staff to backup they forget from time to time.
People backup a two tape backup on the same single tape (yes you did read that correctly).
Automated backups can and do fail but because they are automated you assume they work everyday, they don’t.
We could go on….
So how do we help our clients with this problem? easy, we do it for them.
Every evening we remotely access the customer’s site and perform the backup ourselves. This involves:-
1) Connecting to the remote customer’s site.
2) Start the backup.
Next Day we check the backup was successfully completed.
Connecting to customers sites each day is a good thing because we can spot any problems before they escalate.
This is great for our clients it’s now just something they don’t have to worry about.
If you have questions about this or other technology issues then please leave a comment or e-mail website@481.co.uk.