Remote Backup

Remote Backup Services works as per traditional tape backup solutions, with a major difference. Instead utilising a tape drive or other optical storage media directly attached to a server which is to be backed up, iceBackup's, remote internet based backup solution sends your data to your dedicated backup server which is located safely at a remote offsite location. Data backup schedule is totally flexible and can be carried out automatically or manually at any time to suit your business.

Secure Remote Backup services from iceBackup can be set to be totally automatic therefore requiring zero intervention or management from users. Most businesses understand the value of their data and have to depend more on the data stored within their IT infrastructure. The IT infrastructure is becoming more fractured every day, servers, computers, remote offices, mobile laptop users, create an ever increasing burden on efficient backup.

"Organisations who wait for disaster to strike to investigate and install more efficient and secure ways of backing up data, will eventually suffer terminal damage and cease to trade. "

The miss-conceptions of a secure, scalable and reliable data backup solution are high costs and a large resource required to administer. It is acknowledged a complete backup must hold or contain multiple versions of the same data files. For example, you should consider having a multiple versioned copies of each file for each backup. Furthermore, your versioned files should always be able to easy restore to a given point in time set by yourself. iceBackup's Offsite Backup Solution has such functionality which is easy to administer and control which will allow members of staff to concentrate on more revenue generating tasks.

What would you do Tomorrow...if you lost all your data Today?

Our offsite backup solution for total security offers 128bit encryption, same as banks and other financial institutions are encrypted. Conventional tape backup do not generally encrypt data, so anyone who had access to your tapes can read them and will potentially have access to your important records and data. Put it this way, I would love to find a backup tape of my competitor's information.

Finally please note that your data is immediately sent offsite and stored securely and safely away from your local IT infrastructure and then replicated to another secure data centre. Even if a company backups up data in the conventional way and do everything else exactly as best practice requires, your data backup will not be recoverable if your building burns down and as a result are not able recover their tapes from a secure fire proof safe in which they have been stored. Nearly all smaller companies and organisations leave the tapes in a secure location within the same building as their IT infrastructure, where everything can be destroyed at the same time.

Remote Backup via your existing internet connection solves literally all of your backup issues by automatically, securely and easily moving your businesses most important asset to multiple locations. Regardless of disaster, if you are using a iceBackup solution you can be sure your business data will always be available.