If you are a computer user with a small office in your home, you undoubtedly have valuable data and content that you don't want to lose. But are you protecting it? Despite the frequency of data loss, statistics indicate that individuals do not properly protect the growing amount of data on their systems.
If you store data on a computer, your data is at risk. There are many ways in which your data can be lost: human error, such as the accidental deletion of a file; problems with hardware and equipment, such as a hard drive failure; theft; viruses; software corruption; even natural disasters such as a fire or flood.
For the home user, lost data can include personal information such as family photos and video, music, e-mail addresses, personal finances, schoolwork, and more. The impact of the loss of this type of data is difficult to measure. Some things, such as a video clip of your child's first steps, are irreplaceable. Yet many home users don't even think about backups until they've experienced the hassle and heartbreak associated with the loss of personal data.
If you work out of your home office, data loss can seriously hamper-even destroy-your ability to conduct business. Because you are storing your customer database, financial records, project information, etc. on your desktop or laptop, all of your critical data is extremely vulnerable. In a best case scenario, data loss is an inconvenience that results in lost time and profit; in a worst case scenario, data loss can ruin your business.
Unfortunately, many users aren't convinced of the importance of backing up data until it's too late. If you haven't backed up your data and have experienced data loss, your recovery options are limited. You can start by trying to quantify the loss, and then make an effort to rebuild your systems and/or recreate your data. You can engage an outside data recovery firm, but this is expensive and not guaranteed to be successful.
If you haven't been backing up your data because you didn't think that you had the time, money, or IT expertise to do so, it's time to reconsider. Yosemite Backup offers you the benefit of over 10 years of experience in enabling simple and cost-effective backup and recovery. Yosemite ensures that your data is safe by protecting everything from your weekly shopping list to your email and financial records, all through a simple, easy-to-use graphical user interface.
- Elements for a Backup Solution
- Key Features / Benefits of Yosemite Backup
Elements for a Backup solution
The only way to ensure that your data can be recovered safely and swiftly in the event of data loss is to implement an effective backup strategy. Proper backup solutions should address the following elements:
- Encryption. Data vulnerability does not stop after it's backed up to removable media. All too often, tapes containing critical data are lost or stolen while in transit or storage. Encrypting data as its written to this media is the best protection from unauthorized access.
- Scheduling. To ensure that your data is protected, it must be backed up regularly and predictably. An automated solution that offers calendar-based scheduling makes this easy. Once setup, such a system requires no human intervention to operate, so you know your data will be protected even if you are not there to initiate the process. The system should also automatically alert you in the event of an error during a data protection process.
- Process control. Incremental backups (only backing up files that have changed since the previous backup) speeds the backup process and reduces the amount of storage needed. A comprehensive system should allow scheduling of protection processes based on the frequency of update for each file of group of files. Data that changes often or is important to your business should be protected more often.
- System Restore. Your data protection system should have an automated process for returning not only your data, but also your full system to operational status. This means that it will restore your operating system and installed applications in a one step process.
- Ability to go back in time. This will allow you to return your system to precisely how it was at a previous point it time.
- Performance. It's inefficient to copy all your files in their original size. Automatic compression of data, combined with incremental backup and optimized device use, enhances backup performance.
- File recovery. Recovered files should be easy to find. Backup software that tracks where files are backed up allows rapid recovery (including version control) through point-and-click.
- Disk-to-disk backup. Disk-to-disk backup provides advantages over tape backup, such as easing media management and speeding recovery. The ideal solution is backup software that enables flexible disk-to-disk backup without requiring expensive proprietary hardware.
If you haven't been backing up your data because you didn't think that you had the time, money, or IT expertise to do so, it's time to reconsider. Yosemite Backup offers you the benefit of over 10 years of experience in enabling simple and cost-effective backup and recovery. Yosemite ensures that your data is safe by protecting everything from your weekly shopping list to your email and financial records, all through a simple, easy-to-use graphical user interface.
Yosemite Backup is the perfect solution for the needs of your home office and is available in three versions: Yosemite Backup Desktop supports backup of a single Windows desktop PC or laptop; Yosemite Backup Workgroup supports backup of up to 10 networked Windows desktop PCs or laptops; Yosemite Backup Single Server Edition protects files stored on a single server.
Key Features & Benefits of Yosemite Backup:
* Blue background cells denote optional components which are sold separately from Yosemite Backup Master Server
| Modular Architecture |
Provides the foundation for a flexible solution that easily grows from a single-server to a many-server environment |
| Media Encryption |
Integrated and easy to implement software encryption allows users to quickly and easily select one of three encryption levels. |
| Native support for Windows, Linux, or Netware |
Standard Master Server can run natively allowing you to use the best platform for your environment, situation, and experience |
| Wizard-driven User Interface |
Quickly and easily install, configure and manage your data protection strategy |
| Popular Options and Agents |
Yosemite Backup native data protection for popular applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft SQL Server allowing customers to embrace applications and technologies that help grow their business without sacrificing a solid data protection strategy. |
| Disk-to-Disk-to-Any (D2D2Ne) |
Quickly and easily implement data copy policies that allow you seamlessly backup data to disk for fast backups/recoveries and then to tape for security and disaster protection. |
| Bare Metal Disaster Recovery |
Create a bootable image for complete, quick, and easy system recovery without reinstalling the operating system or applications |
| Features include unlimited backup to disk, multiple data streams, Self-Tuning Logic, and automated device loading |
Backups complete consistently and reliably within the allotted backup window |
| Protection for unlimited number of networked desktops |
Protect important data stored on networked PCs |