Offsite Backup Services – For the Average Consumer?
Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
by Sig Kappel
http://www.jetback.com
You would think that offsite backup services for data would be expensive and geared towards large to small business. No longer exclusively the benefit of those with a supporting bank roll, offsite backup services can be taken advantage of anyone with a PC, Mac, or Laptop.
The web has given new backup technologies the reach consumers by providing them the means of connecting from anywhere there is an internet connection. Weather at home, hotel, or coffee shop with a hot link. You can now backup your important data ensuring you have recourse in the event of data loss.
I was at a trade show recently asking those attending what they had planned to do in the case of data-loss. It interesting; the types of answers you get from people. The smarter ones had subscribed to a back-up service; some did make good effort to make redundant copies to an external hard-drive, CD or DVD. However, many others responded saying they had nothing important on their computers to backup. What? Nothing important!
I find it hard to phantom that someone would even own a computer and not think twice of losing the data residing on it. Unless all you do is play solitaire, why would any risk losing your pictures, music, tax information, phone numbers, spreadsheets, bookmarks, email, operating system configuration, etc…
What do you have planned when data loss happens to you?
Sig Kappel is a computer engineering technologist, works for IronOak IT and is project lead of Jetback Offsite Backup Services. You can learn more about consumer offsite backup services at www.jetback.com
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