Your Questions About Business Online Backup

Jere answers:

Data & Driver back-ups:
Before you do anything, back up your drivers to a separate CD!
It gets harder and harder to find them, and many places charge to get them.
I use WINdrivers; excellent & free, from “PC World” here:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fi…
Use the ‘identify & back up all drivers’ for the first BU; & keep it with your unit.

Data back-ups are separate items from System backups;
Data are things you have created or added to you unit with programs: letters, documents, pictures, music, etc. These should be done every other week or 1X per month.

Windows has a backup built in (System Tools> Backup), but I find it bulky & hard to use.

Your 1st backup should be the ‘all’ data option as a baseline; after that use the ‘incremental’, which saves only new items, and changes to originals. This saves space on you backup media.
Ideally 2 copies are made of each backup: one kept with the unit, one kept ‘off site’ in case of fire, storms, etc.
DVD-RW can hold a lot of data & can be added to.
One decent B.U. Application is ‘Cobain’ (moderately easy to use; freeware).
Http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/software.htm

Depending on volume of data generated, weekly would be OK for small business/home.

Jere answers:

You will find many free online document management software but if you want to use for business purpose then I suggest you to go with omnistardrive.com , where you will get lots of features with basic host or server hosted. Backup services, unlimited campaigns, groups, bandwidth and much more at very low cost.

Jere answers:

Carbonite have quite a number of these coupons. They have a back up for small business, they have unlimited backup-secure which is encrypted among others. When you go through their coupons, you will definitely find one that suits your needs.

You can also try this one and see if it works: http://www.couponscave.com/go/stores/carbonite-coupons/

Jere answers:

It depends entirely on the provider of the online storage service.

Any server can be hacked, some are better hardened than others

Any server can fail, a good service provider will have multiple offsite backups

Any company can go out of business, so your data would become inaccessible, and more worryingly, the drives may pass into the hands of someone who you don’t know and who isn’t bound by privacy contract with you.

All of the above scenarios have happened, so you will have to assess the risk for your own situation.

Jere answers:

Because if your computer stop functioning, you will lose all data in it. It is such a hassle, especially if you have important photo/information/document in it.

Backup is especially important for business. If your computer stop function your whole operation might come to an halt. If you have backup, you can move data to another computer and it will likely function the same as before.

If you are running a business, an onsite backup might not be enough. Online storage will be a great second backup