Backups and Disaster Recovery

Could your business survive a major data loss?

In most cases, the answer is no. Information is the lifeblood of your business. Lose a little and you could go into shock. Lose a lot and you're likely to die. People always get more interested in data backups during major catastrophes like 9/11 or hurricane Katrina. Do you really want to wait until the next disaster to come up with a plan?

The business in this photo did not wait, and on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, a tornado hit their building, tearing the roof off, allowing rain to flood their server room, rending the server completely useless. Fortunately, all their electronic data was back up and running the next day. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for all the paper files (see image below). Hint: use a document management system.

Investing in a backup and disaster recovery system is an absolute necessity if you are serious about your business

While your current backup system may be working, there are a lot of problems with it, specifically:

• It doesn't back up all of your data off-site.
• If a problem were to disable your servers, it could cost thousands to restore and would take a few days to get you back up and running.
• It doesn't do open file backups OR continuous backups; that means you could lose an entire day's worth of work (and if Murphy's Law applies, that would be the day you completed a 30-page report).
• You have to constantly swap out tapes, which leaves room for human error. Plus, tapes have an average failure rate of 100% -- they all fail, it's just a matter of when.

UPTIMEcontinuity™ is the solution we recommend, and here is why:

• All of your data is backed up continuously throughout the day in 15 minute increments -- even open documents. That means if your server crashes, we can recover your work up to 15 minutes prior to the event.
• We automatically back up all of your data to a highly-secure, off-site location. This eliminates the unreliability of tapes and external hard drives, and protects you if your office is destroyed by an earthquake, flood, fire, and even theft and human error.
• No more swapping tapes! Everything is done automatically.
• Should your server crash -- or even get destroyed -- we'll have a mirror copy of your server, with all the software and settings exactly as you had them, that can instantly become your virtual server. That means you won't be down for days while we rebuild your server, and you won't have to worry about a big bill!
• We can monitor this system 24/7 to make sure it's working. No unpleasant surprises that your backups weren't working.
• This will save you a ton of money on offsite backup. This is what is most amazing -- the price! To get this level of backup and security would normally cost thousands of dollars more, but this new system delivers it at a fraction of the price.

Don't wait for the next catastrophe...be prepared. Contact us today to talk to someone and find out more about this solution.

Client Testimonials

We Take Pride in Proven Results

"The install caused very little disruption to our users. The new server software was installed while we continued to run our old server...The shared calendars function is helpful and will become even more helpful as more employees begin using the feature...The costs associated with the installation of SBS should be paid for within the first half of the year through improved staff productivity resulting from fewer e-mail server outages and less time devoted by Uptime staff to server maintenance...I thought there would be more disruptions during the installation. I was happy that I was wrong about that. Migrating messages from the old server to the new server was also easier than I expected."

Matt Kaufman
UrbanTrans Consultants
Senior Planner