It’s no secret that data is a key asset for any business. It’s also no secret that it can be difficult to protect this asset, and when disaster strikes, the consequences of not having a backup strategy in place are severe.
Data backups are an essential component of every IT professional’s job because they’re responsible for making sure their company has a secure data centre in place to safeguard information from loss or corruption.
Finding the right data backup strategy for your company can help you sleep well at night knowing your data is secure.
Backing up isn’t a one-and-done approach. You want as many layers of data backup as you can get. For this reason, the 3-2-1 backup strategy is the gold standard for backing up your data.
The concept is to create three copies of your data on at least two storage solutions, one of which is stored remotely.
West Quay Officers offers you space to secure your data on our servers and disk arrays located at the office. Reachable as a network drive with ultra-high speeds. You can synch your important data while you are working through the day to our server.
Optionally, every night we can synch this data to cloud off-site storage.
This is your original copy on your computer or any mobile device.
You will work on your usual business matters. You can setup Time Machine for Apple computers or Backup and Restore for Windows computers and synch your important files and folders while working through day.
We will provide a network drive that will work at high speed as the server is in our offices. You can synch live with versioning throughout the day, so If you lose data somehow, you can always recover it from our network drive copy.
Optionally, every night, we will send your data to offsite cloud storage for third-party safety. You only need this option in case something happens to your local copy and our office server copy. This refers more to natural disasters.
Have questions about how it works and how we can provide you with better data backup solutions? We would like to take a moment to answer some of the most common questions.
If you can think of any others, feel free to contact us and ask?
Backing up isn’t a one-and-done approach. You want as many layers of data backup as you can get. For this reason, the 3-2-1 backup strategy is the gold standard for backing up your data.
The concept is to create three copies of your data on at least two storage solutions, one of which is stored remotely.
This will happen anytime between 12 AM and 6 AM.
We will provide a network drive that will work at high speed as the server is in our offices. You can synch live with versioning throughout the day, so If you lose data somehow, you can always recover it from the copy you have in our network drive.
Our network drives are encrypted on our server side. You can also encrypt your own backups if you want and no one can read other than yourself. If you want to encrypt on your own, please make sure your password is safe as no one can access data withour password. Even yourself if you loose it.
No, this is local backup. You have two options:
1- Local backup on our servers insude our office space
2- An additonal cloud backup for safety in case some disaster happens to our building or our office.
You can get local or both.
Our backup soluion is not like public cloud backups where your data travels everywhere.
Your data will not leave outside of our office if you choose only local backup.
If you want optinal cloud backup as well, your data still won’t leave out of Canada if we configure Toronto location. Cloud backup is an additonal safety backup option in case some disaster happens to our office or in North Vanciouver.
That's up to you. You can do this in real time or periodically depending on the software you use.
We will encrypt it from our local server to cloud location and store the encryption key in our side so your data could not be read on cloud. You cannot access your data on cloud yourself as well. Only we can restore your data to local per your request and than you can access.
You can alwasy use your own additonal encryption while backing up to make your data secure from anyone including us.
We use disk-arrays protected by RAID 6 for up to 2 drive failures at same time.
Yes, you can. You can backup multiple computers to your local backup location. One subcription wil be enough.
No, you don’t. While you can use any additional backup software, they are also built-in on most systems. We prepared guides forfor Apple computers or Windows systems. You can also find many guides on internet.
From tornadoes to power outages to hardware failures, there are many potential causes of data loss. While natural disasters like floods are a legitimate fear, they’re far from being the only threat to your data.
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