In a small business environment there are advantages to maintaining a local backup copy along with an off-site Cloud backup.
Backup and Disaster Recovery plans are often split into layers so that recovery can happen more easily, depending on the level of disaster that has occurred.
Having a local backup copy would be referred to as an Online backup and the advantage of an Online backup is quick restores of files that are quite recent. A good example might be restoring a corrupted Outlook file from the previous night’s backup because the current one won’t open. It would be faster and easier to pull this from the Online local backup.
A Cloud Backup fulfills the off-site requirements of your Disaster Recovery plan and is used when the Online local copy is corrupted or unavailable or there has been a significant internal disaster. A server or drive array failure would be a good example of this.
The CloudPockets Small Business client has the ability to schedule and perform both an Online backup and an off-site Cloud backup.
Create a Online Backup Local Copy
- In the CloudPockets Small Business client select your backup options and click the Local Copy menu
- Enable Copy to Local Hard Disk and select the backup location (external drive or drive array) and select your retention policy.
Restoring from a Local Copy
- Click the Decrypt Local Copy button and select the backup set you wish to restore. It looks and functions like the Restore menu option.
- Browse to the file or folder you need to restore.