Do You Plan For Backup Disaster Recovery?

When you perform a backup, disaster recovery is the last thing you hope for; however, it must always be planned for.  Disasters are called that because they happen at the most inopportune times and are never anticipated and far less appreciated.  You can limit the damage done by a hard drive failure or any other data loss disaster with an advanced, disk-based backup system.

Disk-based backup and backup disaster recovery systems are becoming more prevalent as the trusty but dead slow tape backup systems are finally falling out of favour with modern businesses.  Tape drives tend to be less reliable and they impose chronological data access on the user – there is no random access ability like with a disk drive.  Therefore, it takes time to find and identify your backup data.  In any event, disk drives of several terabyte in size are becoming commonly available, so the question of storage space has become a non-issue.

Before you implement a new backup system in your business, ensure that your hardware is compatible with it.  Even more importantly, you operating system platform and proprietary software should also be compatible with it.  A backup and recovery system like Snapshot EFB is cross-platform compatible (including Windows, Apple, Novell and Linux) and if you make use of such a modern and advanced system, you even have the luxury of restoring to a different operating system that what you had made the backup on originally.

System 5 has been in the Information Technology business for over twenty years and we can offer you state-of-the-art backup and disaster recovery systems such as EFB Snapshot to minimise the impact on your bottom line if the worst happens.  For more information on how we can assist you today, contact us.