Offsite Backup Software Features
Most of us can relate to the scenario where right in the middle of doing some important work on the computer, the PC starts acting strangely and perhaps we are given a blue screen. Maybe the computer fails to start again. We do not know what is happening to our data. If you do not have backups of your work you can lose your work and business data such as accounting records, tax information and employee records. It is not sufficient enough to simply make backup copies of important files. What you need to do is place them in a different location than the originals. This way, if your hard drive fails, you can retrieve your vital information from a network drive, backup drive, FTP account or an internet based email account.
Offsite backup software can compress, encrypt and restore your information automatically in the case of a sudden and catastrophic data loss. There are many vendors today who specialize in offering remote backup. The special software is downloaded on your system and the backups are uploaded to the remote servers. You data is encrypted before it leaves your computer, making it safe as it travels through cyberspace to the data center. The backing up of your data will be automatically done daily over the internet. In the case of a crisis, be it a fire, flood or a computer malfunction, you are able to retrieve your data via any web browser, to any any computer, anytime.
Offsite backup software has the ability to back up files that are often left open such as SQL database files and Outlook files. This allows for the ability to perform backup tasks at any time of the day and does not require any server downtime. Most service providers offer add-ons for this and the higher-end offsite backup software providers often offer this as a standard feature. The better service providers also offer a multi-platform backup service that can handle the several variations of Windows, Linus and Macintosh. If the backup service provider offers network backup it can backup multiple computers, servers or NAS appliances on a local network from a single computer. Some of the higher-end service providers are also capable of backing up both the data of a company's main headquarters as well as data that is located at branch offices.