With a reported 60% of companies that lose their data shutting down within 6 months backing up your organisational data is a no brainer.

How would your enterprise cope without its emails, client database, accounting records or payroll files?

What data to backup, how often and to where/what are the key questions in a backup regime. Backups must also be monitored to ensure reliability and data integrity.

There are a range of solutions available using different backup media and data transfer technologies.

We ensure your data is safe, secure and easily restored.

So if you are interested in finding out more about what we can do for your company or organisation contact us today.

Onsite
Onsite backup allows a copy of your important data and system files to be maintained locally at your organisation's office thereby allowing instant restore/access in the event of a drive failure.

Offsite
Offsite backup makes copies of all your important files to another location so that in the event of theft, fire, flood or another unforeseen event your critical data is safe and secure. ezIT uses FTP to transfer your files to the backup location.

Online
ezIT uses a local online backup provider for backup and storage solutions for data on PCs, laptops or servers. The service is fully automated, secure and monitored to give you total peace of mind. You tell us what to backup and we do the rest.

System
Apart from organisation data, user files, email etc. backing up system data and applications is crucial. System data can be backed up to an external drive. For redundancy RAID can be used or the system drive can be cloned to cope with drive failure.

NAS
Network Attached Storage provides network accessible storage capacity in one or more locations. It is easily managed and configurable for different network user types.

Monitoring
Any backup regime is only useful if it is reliable and ensures data integrity. Our backup plans are fully monitored with automatic email alerts in the event of a problem.

Backup Issues

• Tape-Based Backups
  Traditionally organisations have used tapes as the backup medium of choice. However tape-based backup systems have many drawbacks. They are slow, unprotected, platform-dependent, expensive and failure prone with restore failure rates between 20-50%.
  
  With the ongoing drop in prices using external disks as the backup medium solves these problems in a cost-effective way.
• RAID is not Backup
  For organisations running a server likelihood is that it has RAID functionality. This means that in the event of one of the hard drives going down the system will continue to operate as normal switching to the other drive/s. But RAID is not backup. If important files are deleted or corrupted whether by applications, the OS, users or malware RAID can't help you.
  
  Backup is a complete and recoverable copy of your data on a different volume on a separate disk located locally or somewhere on the network or offsite.
• Cloning and Mirroring
  Cloning is an exact copy of a folder or volume/drive at a point in time. To clone a volume/drive a piece of software is used such as Acronis True Image which creates the exact copy of one drive onto another drive.
  
  Mirroring refers to synchronising folders/drives with each other periodically. It is used when high availability is important such as in RAID configurations.