Recent mass flooding events in Queensland and New South Wales have proven how rapidly such disasters can occur, causing Digital Armageddon. Not to mention the damage and destruction to properties, infrastructure and livelihoods. Many thousands of homes and businesses will have lost all their computer resources including critical business data, precious family photos, as well as computer hardware and infrastructure.
A vast majority of these homes and businesses will have failed to meet the 2 of the most important golden rules of backup. "Backup often" and "Store the backup safely and securely". Data recovery is a very expensive task, especially in the instance of flood or fire. Water and fire damage is very destructive to computer hardware, usually resulting in total data loss and slim chances of data recovery resulting, with recovery costs amassing in the thousands. Yet if the right measures are put in place before such disasters you can prevent losing any of your critical data.
You may say, "This will never happen to me!" or "I will take the risk!" Recent events have proven that these types of disasters can happen very quickly, without notice and to anyone anywhere. For example, the Black Saturday bush fires in Victoria, the massive flooding events in Queensland and New South Wales, the bush fires in the southern areas of Western Australia to mention a few, without taking into account examples from around the world.
Preventing the loss of your data is simple and essential. Cloud or Online Data Backup Services are a great way to backup your data frequently, automatically and securely. Data is backed up and stored off-site, in the cloud. What is the cloud, in this scenario it is secure internet based computer and storage infrastructure. Your data is encrypted and stored in multiple geographical locations in the cloud. Safe and secure in multiple off-site locations, safe from any natural or human disaster.
The cost of a cloud backup service is comparative to most proven onsite backup methods with the added benefits of total automation and secure off-site storage. Even without the threat of a natural disaster it makes sense to use an online data backup service
