Using a cloud-based storage system to back up your information can be an affordable and smart way to store your data, but where does that data actually go? Your information isn’t just floating around somewhere. It is on a server at a specific location, wherever the cloud storage provider’s location is.
Why Not Back Up On-site?
It may seem like a good idea to keep the information you back up close to your company’s headquarters. However, it is often better to store your backed-up information offsite. What if some kind of disaster occurs at your company’s location? If you stored your data on on-site servers, that information could be lost forever. Storing your data on offsite servers allows you to avoid such a problem. For this reason alone, it’s worth it to consider cloud backup solutions for your company.
What Happens to Information When It’s Backed Up with Echopath?
When a company chooses cloud backup, whether it is for a physical server, workstation, tablet, smartphone, or even a cloud service, their information is broken down into blocks of small data. Then those blocks are compressed, encrypted, and de-duplicated, before being sent to an offsite storage location. De-duplication eliminates multiple copies of information, which saves companies money by not having to pay for unnecessary storage space. Once Echopath’s solution has been applied to your data, it is sent offsite.
What Happens After It’s Backed Up?
Just because your information has been backed up and sent offsite, that doesn’t mean that it is forgotten. Echopath’s solution tracks your information and ensures your information is kept up to date. This allows companies to restore their information to various versions. They can restore their information to a specific day or time as dictated by the back-up job configuration and retention rules.
When you back up your information with a cloud back-up solution, you are doing everything you can to ensure that if disaster strikes you will be able to get your operation up and running as fast as possible. Your information is saved and updated offsite which allows you to retrieve everything you need no matter what happens to the local servers at your company’s headquarters.