2025-06-17

The Best Online Backup Service Is The One That Fits Your Needs

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Online Backup Service Where’s the best place to keep your backed-up data? Somewhere far, far away. Online backup services will keep your data safe no matter what sort of disaster strikes your local PCs.

Backing up your files online is a safe alternative to using regular backup software. However, finding the best online backup service to use isn’t as easy. This post will help you choose the best online backup provider that will be easy on your pocket book and provide the services you want.

Backing up your computer, or choosing an online backup service, is one of the most important things you do to insure data and files are not compromised or terminally lost during unforeseen “disasters,” which, according to “Murphy,” can, and probably will, happen at some point.

How do you shop for the best online backup service for you? How much space do your files need? How many user accounts do you have? Who can you trust with your data privacy? How much can you afford?

Security
Companies advertising more than one data center offer simultaneous duplicate backups of your data. Look for warnings from companies about your passkey. They will tell you if you lose your passkey, you cannot access your data backup account. This is a good thing! It lets you know that no one can randomly access your backup account without your permission or passkey.

Frequency
More is better. You want to get multiple copies of your data, automatically uploaded on a frequent and regular basis. The more often your data is backed up, the more protection you have in the event of a virus or irreparable corruption.

Space
Do you save lots of pictures, videos, and music? These files consume a lot of space and it might be more efficient to use an external hard drive to backup these. However, external and optical drives do not offer privacy and protection afforded by online (remote) backup services.

Price
“You get what you pay for.” Typically low-cost services take longer to complete the initial backup. They reduce their bandwidth costs by slowing your upload speed, which limits the amount of data that can be backed up, thus taking for, what can seem like forever, when you want to get done with maintenance and resume your processing.

Free Trial
If you have a high-speed Internet connection, and know what you want to back up and where the files are located, there are online backup services that allow you to try their service for free on a trial basis.

The best online backup service is the one that fits your needs and pocketbook.

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Data Recovery Solution: Data Loss Dangers

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Data Loss Dangers

As drives get smaller and smaller, drive heads come closer and closer to the rotating media. The results are more frequent equipment failures and more destructive data losses.

• A company attempts to restore lost data from carefully collected backups, only to discover the backups are unreadable.

• A RAID system’s cooling process collapses, causing its drives to overheat and fail.

• An MIS administrator completes a fix on a mirrored drive without shutting off the mirror, losing the reference point for the original data.

• A business adds a drive to its NetWare server, accidentally erasing the server’s partitions.

Data loss disasters like these are becoming increasingly commonplace. This is due, in part, to rapidly changing computer technologies.  The increase in data disasters also stems from the sheer volume of data generated by modern companies and the decentralized way that data is produced, collected, and stored. As distributed network models proliferate, and organizations continue to open their doors to the Internet, threats to data integrity and data security are compounded.

While data backups would seem to offer an effective shield against these threats, backups do not always provide comprehensive data protection. That is because the data backup plans developed by many companies are not fully realized or, worse yet, not followed.

What is more, individuals often fail to test the “restore” capabilities of their backup media. If the backups are faulty, a simple data loss can quickly become a data disaster. Finally, even if backups are successful, they only contain data collected during the most recent backup session. As a result, a data loss can potentially rob you of your most current data, despite your backup attempts.

The reality of data loss forces business executives to ask themselves some serious questions. For example:

  • Does a major data loss put your business interests at risk?
  • Does data loss expose your company to legal repercussions?
  • How susceptible are your data storage devices to corruptions and crashes?
  • What can be done to properly protect and recover critical data?

The importance of computer data to the daily operation of your organization requires you not only to ask these questions, but to successfully answer them as well.

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