Backups have, in the past, been difficult and regulated more to larger corporations.
A robust backup system often cost tens of thousands of dollars and required ongoing maintenance. It’s only recently that new technology has been made available to allow small businesses and home offices to easily and effectively have business grade backups.
What is a Cloud Backup Service?
Faster Internet connections and improved compression technology now allow enough power to use your Internet connection to copy files to a remote location. This is what a Cloud Backup Service does. We take the important files you have selected, compress them to make them smaller and encrypt them so that they can’t be opened by just anyone. Then we move that copy of your files to our server located here in British Columbia. Nobody needs to swap tapes or disks. A Cloud Backup Service make it all happen automatically.
Why Off-site?
One of the problems with a home office is that it is your business – and your home. Even if you do perform backups of your important business files, where do you put them? You can’t “take them home” because you are home. An off-site backup for a home office would previously mean a safety deposit box, a friend, or some other external location. As you can imagine, the hassle is such that most don’t do it.
In a real disaster everything would be lost.
The advantage of using a Cloud based Backup Service is that, along with the backup, you have also taken that backup off-site. Now you’re protected should a disaster strike the home and you company files are recoverable.
In a typical small business with its own office the backups often went home with the boss or tech person. It’s easy after time to forget how important that off-site backup part is and leave it at the office with the intention to take it next time. Physical media can get lost or stolen, rendering any benefit obsolete.
Using a Cloud Backup Service removes the need to remember and pack anything in your case or coat pocket. Backups are removed from the building, automatically, without you thinking about it.
Where does it go?
At CloudPockets we believe that you should have some idea of where you off-site backup is. Don’t just send it “out there, somewhere”. Our Cloud Backup Server is right here in the Vancouver area and backed up data never leaves Canada.
Take a Test Drive
Cloud Backup Services are new for many people, so we give you an opportunity to try it before you sign up. Download the backup client and install it on the computer where your files are stored. Configuration is straight forward, then just let it run. We give you up to 15 days to evaluate how effective it is for you. When you’re ready, subscribe to a plan and pat yourself on the back – you now have all the advantages of using a Cloud Backup Service.