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“Fall In Love With A New Backup Solution”

“They say breaking up is hard to do; but when it comes to choosing between your old familiar tape drive and risking your company’s data, it should be a no-brainer. Tape drives are notorious for failure — and if you are still swapping out tapes as your only backup source, here are 4 reasons you need to break it off:

  1. Your tape drive is a cheater. Here you are, faithfully swapping tapes and taking them home every day (at least you do most of the time), feeling secure that your data is safe and that you could be back up and running again fast in the event of a disaster, right? Wrong.Your tape drive only backs up your data—the information you have physically typed in; but your software programs, network settings, printer and Internet configurations are NOT getting backed up and cannot be recovered from the tape. That means if your server were to go up in flames (or simply fails) you would have to find all your software disks and authentication codes and REBUILD your server. That task could take several days, costing you a lot of money and lost time.
  2. You could lose an entire day’s worth of work. Ever lose an hour’s worth of work or a document because Word crashed? Now imagine losing an ENTIRE DAY’S worth of work. Frustrating, huh? Since tape drives can’t perform open file OR continuous backups, if your system crashes at the end of the day, all the documents, entries and work you (and your entire staff) completed that day are toast. And if Murphy’s Law applies, that would be the day you hammered through a grueling 30-page report. Newer virtual backup systems will take a snapshot of your server every 30 minutes, saving your work from going into Never-Neverland. Plus, if you leave files open at night when you leave for the day (and we all do that occasionally), it will back up those files too.
  3. Your tape drive will abandon you when you need it most. You can only retrieve the data from your tape with a compatible tape drive. If you have had your tape drive more than 2 years, it may be a phased out model, no longer available to order. This could mean that when you need to recover your data, you are unable to, even if the data is there.
  4. You can’t trust a tape drive. Tapes have an average failure rate of 100%—they all fail, it’s just a matter of when, not if. Plus, you have to remember to swap out tapes every day, which leaves room for human error.

The bottom line is this: Tape drives are antiquated, and they’re an incredibly unpredictable way of backing up your company’s data. That’s why we urge all our clients to “break up” with their old tape drives and upgrade to Free Backup Quote.

Switch Over To A Reliable Backup System
That You Can Actually Fall In Love With

Not only is our Free Backup Quote very affordable, but it will continuously back up your entire server—including open documents—every 15 minutes so you don’t have to lose a day’s worth of work. Then every night it will automatically back up a snapshot of your entire server offsite to a military-grade data center where it will be kept safe and secure until you need it.

No more swapping tapes or unpleasant surprises that your backups weren’t working, and no risk of being down for days trying to recover data from old tape drives. Plus you’ll gain the peace of mind that your data could be recovered fast in the event of a server meltdown or disaster.

Don’t delay! Contact us today for a free estimate on switching over to a backup system that you can actually fall in love with: 585-425-3420 or simply fill out the form to the right.

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I just want to tell you that you have a gem of an employee on your hands. Tom Barlow is wonderful to work with. I have great confidence in him, he is courteous, and always a pleasure to see when he arrives. I've also always had a great experience with any of your techs that I have occasion to talk with on the phone. Congratulations on a wonderful staff!
Deborah Congden,
R.J. Schickler, Inc.
I am worry free since we signed up for the offsite backup service. We are a small not-for-profit organization and do not have the funds available to invest in a server where all files can be saved and backed up so having the remote/offsite back up service is perfect for us not to mention it saves us time and it’s safer for our data should there be a fire or computer crash.
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CCDP, Inc.

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