Data Backup & Recovery

Sales records, proposals, contracts, receivables, presentations, client database …

We all know that backing up our company’s data is critical to our businesses.  And we’ve all heard the stories of those unfortunate business owners who have lost their data – frightening tales of downtime, lost business opportunities and precious time spent re-keying/rebuilding data.

So why are so many small business owners still not backing up their data, or using unreliable backup methods such as tape?  Confusion! At Direct Connect, we have a reliable, simple, and affordable solution for backing up your data.  Read on to learn the basics, or simply contact us to have us take care of your data backup.

Our recommended backup solution for small businesses is Offsite Backup Solutions®.

“We recommend Offsite Backup because it is secure, reliable and a great value for your money as compared to backup methods of the past such as tape or external hard drives”.  – Jim Conley, Owner, Direct Connect

What is Offsite Backup Solutions®?

Simply put, Offsite Backup is an online backup service that securely and automatically backs up your data to offsite servers.   The offsite servers are also backed up by another set of servers.

Top reasons why we recommend Offsite Backup to our customers include:

• Automatic – Schedule backup your computers and/or servers every day effortlessly and automatically.

• Safe & Secure – Unlike conventional backup methods, your critical data is encrypted (128-bit!), compressed, and then uploaded to a remote server via SSL, guaranteeing security. Offsite Backup Solutions requires no hands on intervention, thus eliminating human error. Your data is held safely and securely offsite in case of a fire or burglary. Your data is stored on two completely separate, fully redundant servers.

• Lower cost – Using Offsite Backup Solutions actually lowers your backup costs. No more tapes, tape drives, head cleaners, or licensing to finance. Recovering lost data is easier, more reliable, and less expensive as well.

• Easy to recover data – Your data is backed up in a way that allows you to restore your data from any backup by date, within the last year or more. (Retention is set by you).

• Easy to manage – Offsite Backup Solutions is extremely easy to use, and no special technical knowledge or training is required. Anyone with basic computer literacy will be able to manage it.

• Proven technology – Offsite Backup Solutions has been providing data backup solutions since 2003 and has more than 500,000 deployments worldwide. We offer secure, encrypted protection of your critical data, leaving you with peace of mind.

Don’t worry about your data for another second!  Starting at just $25 per month, you can back up your servers, desktops and notebooks.   Contact us to backup your data today with Offsite Backup Solutions.

Data Back Up FAQs

Q: Is it safe to do backup via internet?

A: Definitely. Your data is securely stored off-site, using military level encryption employed by most multi-national banks that require a high level of security. All of your data is 128-bit encrypted and compressed before being uploaded and stored on Offsite Backup Solutions’ Offsite Backup Server through a secure SSL channel.

Encryption and decryption will only be done on client’s machine with user’s password, which will not be transmitted during uploading and downloading. Therefore, nobody can read the files.

Q: Do I have to backup my data?

A: Setting up data backup, recovery and retention policies is the only way to prevent disaster from happening and safeguard your business continuity. Backing up your business data is so important that governments worldwide have started imposing regulations on businesses to ensure safe data retention.

Governments have started imposing regulations to ensure safe data retention in businesses so as to protect public interest. Although your industry may not be affected at the moment, it is wise to do it earlier.

Here are some of the regulations in the United States: Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)

Q: Can I backup my data with tape?

A: Conventional backup methods such as tape are proven to not be as reliable as Offsite Backup.  Why?:

• Data is not encrypted
• Prone to physical and mechanical damages
• Prone to be stolen or misplaced
• High failure rates during restoration
• Critical backup failures will not be detected until at the time of restoration
• High cost of maintenance and licensing
• and, the human element; someone’s gotta change the tapes!

Let us know your backup and recovery questions! Use our contact form or call (216)382-4900.

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