Your data is precious. It’s a serious part of what makes your business successful. It makes sense that you’d want to keep it nearby, somewhere you can keep an eye on them and keep them under lock and key. Onsite backup isn’t a bad thing—any backup is good backup. But if you’re only hosting your data onsite, you could be asking for trouble. Here’s why:
Space
Onsite servers may be nice, but they’re limiting. You’re adding data to them every day (at least, you should be). And here’s the thing: they fill up. And they aren’t just filling up with new data. They’re filling up with multiple versions of documents that you already have backed up. You may have 100 different versions of one file. When you’re buying new servers to host more information, it doesn’t stop the problem. Some cloud backup solutions, like ours powered by Asigra, offer you an opportunity to compress it and deduplicate it. That way, when you’re sending your files off into the cloud for storage, you aren’t wasting any space on multiple files. You get the file you need, just in the condition you left it.
Disaster Recovery
Everyone knows terrible things happen because of Mother Nature. This is why we all have insurance. But not everyone thinks about the fact that if your office goes through some kind of disaster, your data—all of it—is lost with it. Even if you have a cloud storage option, the odds are that you’ll still need a data recovery plan in order to get it back. On the other hand, cloud backup solutions try to make the recovery process as simple as it can be. If data is corrupted or lost, most solutions will try to get it back to the source as quickly as possible. As your files are backed up, they can be tracked to ensure that the file that’s being backed up is the latest version, while still offering you the opportunity to restore older versions if you need to. It’s like an insurance policy for your data.
Accessibility
Keeping your servers in what you deem to be a secure room onsite doesn’t necessarily mean that no one has access to them, either physically or virtually. All it takes is one security breach to lose lots of valuable information—both yours and that of your clients. Cloud backup encrypts your data before it’s stored in the cloud, which translates to added safety. Even if something damages the file, good solutions will be able to fix corrupted data to ensure that you get to keep all of the data you need to run your business.
