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Offsite Secure Backup - The Truth about Data Backup

When the Bunsfield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire exploded in the morning of 11 December 2005, the truth about data backup and restoration became a serious issue.
The huge explosions demolished all surrounding buildings, which could be heard at a radius of a hundred miles (160 km). The storage tanks were extinguished in two days, just to re-ignite on the 13th of December. The whole store was then left to burn to the ground. The unconfined vapor cloud explosion was another problem. The report claims that the vast explosion could be heard as far away as France and the Netherlands. There were over 700 companies within a 10- mile radius of the explosion. You can imagine exactly what happened to their data files, stored on tapes somewhere in a defeated safes. Fire-proof saves can really be a bargain, but only if the ruins of the falling building have not covered the said safe! After an explosion of such a rank, for example, this method of backup will prove its incompatibility to today’s perils that lay ahead of some companies. What if a building falls down, as happened to an IT managed services company waiting to transport its data offsite. The safe could not be uncovered, and the whole information was lost. A bankruptcy is what happens after such incidents, thinking about a logical sequence of events. The company was forced to issue a statement admitting its ability to service its customers had been "temporarily affected", with backup systems rendered inoperable.

This was just an example, posed to illustrate the real dangers of irrational data backup, which many companies use to consider “safe”. Even more dangerous accidents can happen to a company, destroying all its mission critical files and data. Let’s involve some statistics. 75% of Companies Believe Their Data Is Safe if They Backup to Tape. They leave their valuable information unsafe and rely on procedures such as tape backup. Tapes can be stolen, destroyed, sold to rivals. Anything can happen to tapes. 97% of Companies Believe Their Data Is Safe if They Backup to Tape and Store the Media Offsite. Offsite media storage is no longer enough; the information is not safe, if the backup tapes are destroyed by accident. Backup to Tape is No Longer Enough. The worst thing is that the highly threatened companies still don’t realize it. Pay attention that Buncefield was only the 5th largest of over 50 refinery, storage and distribution sites in the UK, all of which are situated near major motorways and conurbations.

The question that you should pose to your mind is whether you can afford to be struck by a disaster. The tape method of backup is no longer totally safe. The solution we offer to you is called Offsite Backup: an automatic backup of your data at two remote data centers in different countries, which have redundant connections between themselves. As your data is secured in two different countries, the whole information can be accessed any time at any day that you choose. The replication of your data in two different centers is a real solution to all your security bothers. PerfectBackup offers a simple, affordable and secure way to backup all your files: Exchange, SQL, MySQL, Oracle and Lotus data, ensuring the whole data set will always be available. For further details about our service, please visit www.perfectbackup.ie. Our site will be a serious guideline to all your questions. PerfectBackup is the solution offering nothing but benefits: it combines the strong points of tape and offsite backup, eliminating the traditional drawbacks. It will protect your data a secure offsite location, and make you more self-assertive about the further enlargement of your company.

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