Failing with online backup

Michael Krigsman:

“Seeking to back up 350GB in safe, reliable, off-site storage, I tried Carbonite and Mozy, two of the most respected names in the offline backup market. Both products failed miserably to achieve my goals, each one in a perversely different way.”

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My observations about this article are as follows:

You Get What You Pay For

Expecting a backup service that costs $5 per month to work for large scale data backup and restore is unrealistic. And 350GB of data is large scale. In these days of 1TB hard drives, people are becoming a little blase about shifting large quantities of data around. But the fact is, to reliably and securely backup this volume of data requires an enterprise grade solution.

Especially if you want to be 100% certain that you can recover your data when you need it.

Recoverability is Everything

Backing up data is only a necessary pre-condition for successful data recovery. Any service with an Internet connection and a big enough hard disk can receive your data as a ‘backup’ given enough bandwidth and time.

But its the ability to get your data back again should you ever be in the situation where that is 100% necessary and critical to the future of your business that is the determining factor in whether an online backup solution is effective or not.

There’s only one data backup service on the planet offering up to a $2,000,000 USD guarantee behind their capacity to restore your data to you.

That’s Data Vault Security.

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