Your Questions About Business Online Backup

Any Offsite backup utilities which I can use for small business ?

– we are a small business company with 30 computers in our network
– we currently backup our data to an external hard drive connected to our server , we do a full
backup every day.
– we have 2 external backup drives, which we keep swapping them every day, so ONE drive will
be connected to the server all the time for backups and other drive will be with me at home(offsite).
– I take the drive everyday with me to office and keep swapping them.

– we have full T1 internet bandwidth at office
– I have a cable internet at home

I wanted to know if there is any offsite backup tool which I can purchase and install on my server and my home PC, so that backups can be transferred between the two backup drive over internet.
This will cut down my time taking the drive physically and swapping it every day. The backups running online can be incremental.

Any software or tools which does this job.

Thanks in advance

Do you have any preference between Mozy and Carbonite for auto online backup of your computer files?

I plan to use auto backup of my computer files once I get a new laptop, primarily for business purposes but also for personal files. Mozy and Carbonite seem to be the big names, and their fees are roughly the same. Do you have any outstanding pros or cons for either? Any preference?
Re: business purposes, this is fairly simple. Just for a sole propietorship. Files would include Excel sheets, Word docs and PDFs, primarily.
Whoa, why the negative replies? I understand online backup is a common practice. I plan to backup all files on an external drive, too, but that doesn’t help me in instances of theft or disaster (e.g. fire). Mozy and Carbonite are trusted sources….
Mozy and Carbonite ARE programs, TechnoAlien…. And have you never heard of Google Docs? One could back up their files there, but it doesn’t provide auto backup. This isn’t exactly a radical idea…. It’s a smart one, actually.
I am looking for feedback from people who have had experience with Mozy and/or Carbonite or similar programs. Thanks.
In addition, the bulk of the files I would be saving would not include my personal or business financial info. These would be personal and professional docs I have worked on and want to hang onto for archival purposes.

Online Storage for business- with automatic back up?

Hi

I am looking for a online storage (cloud service) that will automatically backup network data without having tom manually copy files over. I have seen carbonite business and it says that it will automatically change files but will it do this for the network (windows & linux servers). It seems that carbonite business will only let you pay in dollars, so probably would prefer a uk site.

If not can anyone recommend any online storage with automatic back ups?
Thanks Laurence, however we need off site storage instead of onsite in case of a fire or anything.

Online Data Storage Business?

First thing is first, I have no experience of owning a business, and have never done anything like this in my life, but I wanted a feel for what people think!

I want to set up an online data storage business, where customers can log in to my website, see their allocated disk space and upload files as an off-site backup which is kept forever. They can also download files, documents, pictures, whatever, to retrieve their backup.

Basically, the user pays to rent disk space on my server, and to use a wonderfully colourful website to manage it all.

Anyway, aside from the technical stuff like security and data storage:

What do I need to do?
Where do I need to go
Who do I need to talk to?
What do I need to consider?

I’d love to set this up and perhaps make it my only venture, endeavouring to build upon it and make it better and better as I absolutely love I.T. and I think that storage backup is so important and is often neglected.

ANY input from you would be appreciated.

Thanks for reading.

Dale

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