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A medical services company, Newell & Associates
had a disk drive crash six months after it began operations.
And, even with a fully backed up system on a tape drive, it
took over five days to get a critical computer system restored.
After that incident Newell & Associates spent several months investigating
all the alternatives to a manual backup systems. And, finally
decided that the best backup system was to outsource to the professionals of MSC.
Most fortune 500 companies use the same basic techniques to protect
their data:
- All their systems are completely automated
- The data is copied to a central location
- Highly skilled technicians implement and monitor the process
The advantages to a typical business are enormous:
- All files are protected by state of the art encryption, only the
customer can retrieve their files
- Completely automated off-site protection
- Fast online recovery of any version of any protected file
- Easy installation and setup
- Only an internet connection is required, eliminating the need
for expensive backup equipment and media
- The backup server is monitored by highly skilled technicians whose
only job is to make sure the backups are performed properly
This is how it works....
We operate an off-site storage facility for the user's data. At
the facility, an account is maintained for each user. Each account is
protected by a password known only to the user!
The electronic vault system is set up so that at a preset time, usually
late at night the clients computer automatically wakes up and prepares
its data for backup, it determines which files have been modified since
the last backup, compresses them, encrypts them for security. When the
data is ready the computer uses its modem or Internet connection to contact our Servers and
transmit the data.
Our Servers verify and store the data. The next morning the
backup is transferred to a tape and placed in a fireproof safe for permanent
safe keeping. They can rest assured that their data is safe, because
it is stored off-site.
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