Back up your data!

As mentioned previously in this blog, backing up your data is crucial. In the modern office, valuable data is often held on computers, no longer on paper sitting in filing cabinets. While this brings many advantages to the office environment, it also creates problem areas.

If the server or PC holding your valuable data has a hardware failure everything is lost. Also, what if your office is broken into? Today we were contacted by one of our clients asking to change their passwords on their email systems after their shop was broken into and all their computers stolen. The client did regularly back up all their data, however only to an external hard drive, which was also kept in the shop. As a result when the shop was broken into, all the computer hardware was stolen, and all data vital to the business was lost.

So backing up may be one thing, but where do you backup to? In our option you should always keep offsite regular backups of all your data for exactly this reason. At AGL Host, we are able securely backup all your valuable data via our FTP service. So if anything ever does happen to your computer or office server, all your data will be kept safe.

If you would like to discuss how we can provide backup solutions for you or your business. Please feel free to contact us.