TS-TECH Backup Disaster Recovery

Backup Disaster Recovery Unit

Have ever been awoken in the middle of the night to the sound of fire engines roaring by and wondered, with a twinge of fear for your office and livelihood, where they are headed?

At TS-TECH, we think about this sort of thing all the time. We understand how dependent businesses are on their data and computer systems. It’s our job to plan for disasters such as fires, floods, thefts, and computer crashes, which can be detrimental to the unprepared.

The simple fact is that disasters will occur, and the key to surviving one lies in the preparations you make beforehand.

Data Backup Systems

Data backup systems are essential. Most current backup systems, such as tape drives and hard disk drives, address one goal: to ensure there is a copy of the data by creating a backup.

All too often, however, they rely on human interaction on a daily basis to change a tape or drive, or worse, to run the backup. TS TECH strongly recommends taking this human factor out of the equation, with an automated online backup system.

Data Recovery

Don’t become too comfortable, even if your backup system is automated. The problem with “just” having a backup is that if you are only backing up, without attempting a data recovery, you are missing 99% of the point. After all -- why backup if you can’t easily recover? Simply ensuring there is a copy of your data is better than the alternative of losing your data, but it fails to address the key point a business owner wants to know:

For example, have you ever stopped to ask your IT team how long it would take for you to recover from a “bare metal” restore? A bare metal restore is an industry term for a worst case situation where you have your data, but none of the settings, configuration, or software installation.

Online systems often only backup critical data and miss the big picture, making a “bare metal restore” very likely

1. Your data is backed up in two places: locally on the BDRU, and on a secure internet site.
2. Your backup is easily restorable and, in most cases, you can be up and running again in about fifteen minutes after a full and complete failure of your server.

A Backup Disaster Recovery Unit works by taking snapshots of your critical servers and the files and information they contain every fifteen minutes. These images are then stored on the Backup Disaster Recovery Unit and sent over the internet bit by bit to a secure, encrypted site that only you can access.

In the event of a hardware failure, the BDRU can boot up one of those snapshots and keep your office running by acting as a temporary server.

In the event of a fire, flood, theft, or other natural disaster, TS TECH can send a new BDRU overnight to your office with all the encrypted data from the secure online site.

Contact TS TECH today to find out which Backup Disaster Recovery Unit is right for your business and to learn more about how this technology can help keep your business running through almost any disaster.
Request an IT Evaluation Today!