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Posted By rpineres
Hey everyone!
I thought I’d go over a couple neat things you may or may not know you could do with the LiveVault Data Backup service.
Imagine this: You have a report due tomorrow which needs to be submitted to another office across the country. You’ve been working all day — you start to feel aches all over as the clock strikes 11pm. As you type the final paragraph and hit the Save button, you get a message that you’ve lost connection to your server. The server has crashed. What would you do?
Anyone who uses LiveVault knows that it’s known for its reliabiltiy in securely restoring your server back to its functional state in a time-efficient manner, but how will you get that report out by tomorrow? Well, this is where the first of the two features comes in: Restoration to another computer. If you log into the LiveVault web portal and choose restore, the only option is to restore to your server. To work around this, you can download the LiveVault Agent on another computer and register it. Now when you choose to restore to another computer, you should see that computer on the places you are able to restore to. Just choose that report you were working on and you’ll have the most recent version of your document on your desktop.
Another nice feature I’d like to bring up is the ability to back up files that constantly change. Just to clarify, LiveVault already backs up files as the data within that file changes. Though, what if the file name changes? For example, a Quickbooks company file in which the last date changed is part of the name: “05.20.09 CompanyData.qbw.” When LiveVault looks for 05.20.09 CompanyData.qbw, it won’t find it the next day because the name changed to 05.21.09 CompanyData.qbw. The best way to always have your data backed up regardless of name is to create a folder and set LiveVault to back that folder up. This way, it will back up all of the files within the folder regardless of name and keep your data safe and off-site.
Well, I hope this information helped in some way. For those of you who aren’t sure about LiveVault or don’t have any disaster plan in place, check out www.nationaldataprotect.com and give our 30-day free trial a shot! Have a great evening guys!
Sincerely,
Ryan
