What
data should you back up in your business? Essentially you want to back up the
most critical data. What can you not live without? If you’re a one-man-show and
you have one computer backing up is really easy. Go get yourself a True Image 2019 Cyber
Protection subscription,
it costs between $60 to $120 or $130 bucks, and back up that computer. It’s
going to contain almost everything essential on that computer, all your, “My
documents, your favorites, your desktop items.” It might not contain all your
email, like you’re, “Outlook PST files,” those can get rather large. It might
not be backed up by default so you’ll want to check that out. You can always
call Carbonate Support and have them help you out with that.
Once you get little bigger, have 3 to 5 people you might want to
be doing local image-based backups. Get what’s called a NAZ Device, and those
can cost upwards of a thousand dollars but it might be right in your budget
when you get to 3 to 5 people. A NAZ Device is a network attached storage
device. It’s like having a hard drive device and usually it’s redundant.
There’s two of them and they mirror each other. You keep it in your office,
you’re computers backup, a snapshot like a picture of the computer to that
device and then take changes every day. Anything that changes it’ll back up the
changes every day. Those devices I think I said, they’re like a thousand
dollars and they’re worth their weight in gold if something breaks.
Then you can also do a cloud backup. Cloud backups are essential
if there’s a fire. A NAZ device is local and it’s only happening here but if
you do a True Image 2019 Cyber Protection
Pro
Subscription, it’s about $119 for a year. You can back up about 3 to 5
computers with it on average depending on how much data you’re storing on each
computer, but our experience has been about three to four. It backs it up to
the cloud, if there’s a fire, there’s a flood all the computers get ruined,
your essential data is in the cloud. What’s the cloud? The cloud is essentially
a server off-site, kept in a data center. What’s a data center? A data center
is a secured building made out of fortified concrete, concrete reinforced with
steel.
There’s multiple data centers and servers, which is essentially
the cloud. It’s servers in these buildings replicated between each other, so
your stuff’s not just kept on one computer, it’s on multiple computers all over
the CANADA, sometimes all over the world. You want to keep your stuff up there,
it’s safe, and it’s a lot safer than our offices. Pay the $119bucks, keep your
stuff in the cloud.
