Your Online Backup is About to Evolve

Online backup offers several key advantages when it comes to data protection. Here are some of the advantages of using Online Backup rather than using the traditional system for taking backups.

• Because the data is instantly encrypted and sent off-site, it’s far more secure than simply copying data to unencrypted tapes that are usually kept within the same building as the master copies.
• Thanks to continuous data protection and “block-level incremental uploads”, you no longer have to endure a long backup window at the end of the day. And you never risk losing more than 5 minutes worth of your work in the event of a data disaster.
• Since it’s fully automated, you can free up extra time to be more productive.  (And maybe even leave work at 5:00pm for once)

But when it came to recovering large amounts of data from a full-system crash, download speeds could still be a major hurdle.

For individual home users, waiting all day to recover 5GB or 10GB of data wasn’t such a big deal.

But companies needed to be back up and running ASAP. Even a few hours of downtime could end up costing thousands of dollars.

Thankfully, online backup providers have discovered an innovative way to get around this problem… with the creation of Rapid Recovery technology. These Rapid Recovery systems are different from traditional backups in the same way that CDs were different from Cassette Tapes. (And just as revolutionary)

Instead of downloading your recovery backups in sequential batches, Rapid Recovery allows the end-user to get random-access to their data during transfer. In plain English, this means that you can begin using your data almost immediately… even before it’s been downloaded.

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In the event that you or a program on your system attempts to access a file that hasn’t been downloaded yet, that file will be given priority and bumped to the front of the line for transfer.

For a business user, this means that they can be up and running again in just a few minutes instead of a few hours. In fact, a single computer crash could be enough to pay for a lifetime of Rapid Recovery services many times over.

Rapid Recovery is the future of online backup. If restore times are critical to you or your business, talk to your provider about implementing this technology within your IT environment.

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Storagepipe Solutions provides backup software with Rapid Recovery features, and other specialized online backup applications.

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