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Online Data Backup and Recovery Overview
Offsite SAN is an online computer backup service. Using an existing Internet connection, it transfers encrypted copies of your most critical data to our secure remote storage vault. This is usually done automatically each night, on schedule, without end-user intervention.

In the event of data loss, this process is reversed and missing data is retrieved (restored) from the storage vault and returned to your computer.

Implementing Offsite SAN is generally straightforward. The initial step is the installation of the online backup client software. Next, a backup set is created and important files and/or folders are identified. Finally, a backup schedule is selected. From that point forward, backups generally occur automatically, on schedule, without end-user intervention.

The initial transfer of data to our Offsite SAN storage vault can sometimes take an extended time period. However, after a full baseline of data is transferred, subsequent backup jobs finish quicker - since they capture only files that have changed since the previous run. At the conclusion of each backup, an electronic mail message it sent which contains the results of the job.

Solve Existing Backup Issues
Online Backups are done on schedule, reliably.

• Most businesses don't do this. For one reason or another, they don't keep a regular backup regimen.
• Usually it's because the person responsible for doing backups (if there is one) is too busy doing something else, or someone is using the computer when it's time for a backup, or they simply forget.
• Since online backups are done with automated software usually at night, when nobody is using the computer, backups are always done on schedule.

Ordinary backup software is often installed with a list of files to be backed up.

• This set of files usually represents the state of the system when the software was installed, and often misses critical files. Further, it often fails to back up files that get added later.
• Compounding this problem, VERY few businesses take the trouble to reset their backup software regularly to include new files.
• Offsite SAN solves this problem by constantly reevaluating the computer system, adding files to the backup as needed.

The general definition of "proper" backups requires redundancy.

• One must keep multiple copies of the same files at different points in their development, called versions.
• As an example, you should have a different copy of each backed-up file for each backup session.
• Further, you should be able to easily restore any of your files up to any given point in time.
• Only Offsite SAN has such an easy to use version control system.

Offsite SAN backups are encrypted for complete security.

• Tape backups are not generally encrypted, so anyone can read them and gain access to client database, billing records, payroll, tax info, and everything else on computers.
• Offsite SAN encrypts its backups using one of the strongest cryptographic methods in the world for complete security so nobody, not even Offsite SAN employees, can read the files.