Why choose Future Logic’s Backup Solution, ‘SafeHouse’?

• Data is the lifeblood of your company
• Mail, Databases (SQL, Exchange, etc), Records, Invoices, Presentations, Contracts, etc: everything is ‘data’
• The amount of data created by the average user/company is increasing exponentially.
• The loss of revenue for each hour of downtime varies from industry to industry

What’s your cost of downtime?
So I back up my servers and I’m done, right? It’s certainly a start! But you’re not really done…

• Between 40-80% of business critical data resides on the hard drives of laptops & desktops
• 60-70% of laptops & desktops are never backed up
• These days 50% of computers sold to businesses are laptops
• 10% of laptops are stolen – annually
• 15% of all laptops will suffer some form of hardware damage in a given year
• 6% of all PCs will suffer a ‘data loss incident’ in a given year
• The average ‘incident’ costs a company $2,557
• Average time to recover lost data = 6 hours (if a person is employed/available to do it)

Some small firms don’t have servers. In these cases, 100% of Business Critical data is on PCs.

• Data: data that is proprietary to you / your company and cannot be replaced, e.g.
• E-Mail, Databases (SQL, Exchange, etc.), Customer Records, Invoices & other Financial Data, Presentations, Collateral, Contracts, Pictures, Drawings, Your Bookmarks, Your Desktop, Your Appointments, Contacts, To Do list in Outlook, Files you’ve synchronized from your cell phone to your PC, Your ‘My Documents’ folder………
• What needn’t you back up?
• Anything that’s easily replaceable! Installed software, typically your Operating system and applications – are replaceable! They’re available on a CD for download, and with the license keys, you can get them up and running quickly. So you needn’t spend time, effort & money backing this up. Maybe it’s a good idea to store all your license keys in a simple text/xls file and back that up, though.
• Although, a solution that includes backing up your software and operating system will save time down the track

For starters, any backup is better than no backup. But if you’re planning to start off safeguarding your data, you might as well do it right. Typical options are:

• Back up to removable media (CD/DVD/USB)
• while this might work for really small amounts of data, it is not automatic (relies on human intervention). Typically, you take a full backup each time (not just the changes), and most importantly, the data is still on-site. In case of a disaster, your backups are of little help.
• Back up to tape
• Enough has been written about the pitfalls of tape backups – from people running into burning buildings to recover tapes they never bothered sending offsite to stolen tapes with credit card details to tape deterioration that was discovered when a customer needed to restore his data. Besides, tape restores are cumbersome and require sys admin intervention even if all you want is to restore a single file before that meeting in the afternoon.
• Back up to an on-site machine (backup server)
• Certainly an improvement! As long as you have the right software, you should be able to backup automatically, incrementally and securely, and restore painlessly and quickly. But bear in mind that your data is still ‘on-site’. In case of a natural disaster / calamity / theft / vandalism, that’s of no help unless you’re replicating your data to a remote server…
• Back up to a remote server (online backup)
• The safest of the lot since your data is off-site and there is a online backup service provider focused on facilitating your backup & restore operations.