Offsite backup? What’s that?

Offsite backup. You may have heard the term at the office, possibly come across it on the internet once or twice. You may even use a program like Carbonite. No matter what your exposure to the idea of backup, there is one thing everyone can agree on, your data is important to you.

That data consists of family pictures, home movies, important documents from or for your clients, an address book that you have spent several years making, and the list goes on and on. Do you have more than one copy of these files? Are those copies on different computers? Do you have copies on an external hard drive? With how integrated our lives have become with technology, and how easily data can be deleted, if you aren’t afraid for your files now, you will be when you suddenly can’t access them. Offsite backup is a solution where you have a copy of your data on your computer, but it is also copied to another secure location on the internet. Having this secondary copy is how you know that these files will be around long after your computer isn’t.

No one wants to talk about it, because it’s a scary thought. What if your house were to flood or catch fire? Home owners insurance may cover damages, but what about loss of data? It can cost thousands to recover files from a dead hard drive as a result of water or fire damage, if your files can be recovered at all. Offsite backup can cost as little as a dollar per month for 2 GB of online storage. If you were to store 2GB of data online for 83 years, you would still not have paid as much as you would to recover the data off of a failed or broken drive.

TH2 Technologies is actively working to provide an Offsite Backup solution for our home and business clients that would be competitively priced and managed locally by TH2 Technicians. If you aren’t sure your data would be safe in the event of an emergency, get in touch with us by emailing me, ricky@th2tech.com, or following TH2 Tech on our Twitter Account. I can send you updates and info on pricing, and together we can make sure your memories and important data are around for a lifetime, and more!