Mass Data Protection & Recovery

Hi Everyone,

Today I had one of those “down to earth” experiences.  One of our clients had a crash and it took 5 work days to completely recover.  Basically, we miscommunicated about what the backup / disaster recovery solution entailed.  A second issue was that one of our former technicians didn’t review the status of the tape based backup during the last preventive maintenance session.

I guess the real lesson here is that, no matter how technical you are and no matter how “AR” you think you are, when human intervention is involved, you will mess up (usually when it will affect you most).

Use a backup service that completely removes the human element - take it from me…

Good night!
John

Hey Everyone,

I had an interesting issue come up just recently. A business searching for a data backup solution contacted us and challenged our service with another provider they had found over the web. Apparently this provider advertised $50.00 to back up 20GB of data per month. Naturally, I was surprised — there’s no way something could be that affordable AND secure.

I went ahead an made my way to the site to see this for myself. The advertised price was there in big, bold letters. By this point, I’m starting to think I’m in the wrong line of business. Then I get to the actual checkout. This backup provider pulled a fast one on the business that called us earlier. Had they actually gone through with the purchase, they would have seen the charge they slipped in at the end. Yes, the service is priced as advertised: $50 a month for 20GB. *cough* And a couple thousand dollars to buy the equipment it will be backed up to. To top it all off, their “geographically separated” data centers turned out to be in the same physical location. I’ll bet the business wasn’t too happy about that discovery.

Moral of the story: Watch your data but also keep a close eye on your wallet! There are plenty of backup providers out there but only National Data Protect will be able to guarantee the works: full encryption through the entire backup process, data archiving, set-it-and-forget-it ease of use,  afforadble pricing and more!

Sincerely,

Ryan

Hello again,

During conversations over the past few weeks I’ve seen an interesting pattern develop regarding the cost of baking up your data.

Many people assert that the price of backing up data securely and off-site is too high, but the reality may surprise you.

As an example, baking up your Quickbooks file, some important spreadsheets and documents, and maybe an Outlook PST file could be backed up in about 4 GB’s worth of space.  This (at www.nationaldataprotect.com) will cost about $40 per month - $480 per year.

Think about the cost of trying to recover your information from a crashed hard drive…  these services can run into thousands of dollars with no guarantee of success.

Now consider the cost of external hard drives for backup.  These are relatively inexpensive - you can pick up a 250GB backup drive for around $150.  But the problem here is that the drive is sitting right next to the data that you’re protecting.  A bad move if you want to be able to recover after a problem like flood, fire or any other environmental problem.

There are even some backup services that charge you some minimal amount per year, but these are consumer services that frankly don’t cut it for your business.  These services only keep one copy of your files.  Meaning that if you need to recover a specific version (maybe one that has not been damaged by a virus) you’re out of luck.

You can choose a combination of the above mentioned services, but then you’re adding complexity that will come back to haunt you when you need to recover some data.

Take a look at the feature matrix and I think you’ll see that your choice is clear.

National Data Protect is flexible, reasonably prices and feature rich. I hope you consider it.

All my best,
John