Managed online backups, in Keswick Georgina
Backup your data online, automatically, and never worry about losing valuable business information ever!
There are multiple services online to backup with various options at various price ranges. Whether you’re running a business or your computer is just for personal use, you need to consider a few things when it comes to online data backups.
One thing is to not get confused between Online backups and online storage. See video below.
- Just because it’s automated doesn’t mean it can’t fail and stop backing up. If not monitored, you will never know it stopped backing up. I’ve heard it before, “I was paying monthly for this company to back up my data and one day I needed it and found out there was nothing there!” TwinBytes offers fully managed and monitored online backups.
2. Some online backups automatically delete files after a short period of time (30-90 days) of it being deleted from your computer. They do this to save space (money). This is how they can offer it so cheap. If you accidentally deleted files and don’t notice right away, you’re screwed. Our backup service keeps data from upto 1 entire year after you delete, whether it’s intentional or accidental.
3. The really cheap flat rate pricing on some services is for personal use only. If they find out you are using it for business, you will be forced to pay the business rates which can be alot more! You want to be legit and stay in compliance when you are running a business.
So as per the above points, you need backups that are monitored, 100% guaranteed to not be deleted in just 1-3 months, and reasonably priced. TwinBytes can offer a backup service that covers all these areas of concern. One of the differences between our backup and other online backups is that we offer managed backups online. We know instantly if there is a problem, and we can address it automatically and immediately, without any interference from yourself. So you can rest easily knowing your backups are handled. Other online backups require you to be the one to monitor and manage them yourself. If you don’t have the time or knowledge to manage your online backups, you could benefit from our help.
The prices from some companies for these online backups range from $1-$2 per GB(Gigabyte) per month for a highly complex backup solution. TwinBytes is offering our online managed backup at competitively lower rates. Give us a call and we can help you calculate how much data you need to backup and get you a proper quote. There is no setup fee and no long term contracts.
How our backup solution works
Backups are automated every 2 hours. This means for smaller quicker backups and that you have more restore points available to go back to for various versions of your files. If any files are deleted from your computer, either by accident or on purpose, or by a hacker, they stay in our backup servers for 1 year before deleted from the backup servers. So you have alot of time to determine files are missing and to request them back.
Our backups not only allow you to recover individual files, but they we include Bare Metal Backup. This means it’s an image that can not only be restored to the computer, but to a whole new computer with completely different hardware. I’ll explain these 3 types of backups here incase you don’t know what I’m talking about.
- File backup: A simple backup of just your files. If your computer dies, you have to reinstall the operating system and all your programs and configure everything and personalize it again.
- Image backup: This is better than just a file backup. If your computer disk drive completely died on you, you could purchase a new disk drive to put in your computer, and by restoring this image, it puts the operating system (Windows 11 for example) back, as well as all programs, settings, personalization, and your files.
- Bare Metal backup: This is the same as an image backup, but can be restored to completely different hardware. (a.k.a. Completely different computer with completely different specs) This is the best kind of backup and it is what we offer in our backup solution.
Experts suggest a proper backup is the 3-2-1 strategy. At least 3 copies of data, 2 different types of storage media, and 1 backup is stored offsite/online. With that said, you might want to consider combining a few of these ideas. For example, maybe you would be alternating 2 USB drives for daily backups, and have 1 online backup.
Local USB Backups
If you have too much data to backup online where it will cost too much for you, it might be cheaper to backup to a USB drive. These backups still need to be monitored by someone and if you are not monitoring yourself, TwinBytes can do it for you via email alerts. Should there be a failure, we would notify you and you may take action yourself or we can assist as necessary.
Note: The only way to confirm backups are working is to monitor them. Either check yourself or have someone check for you regularly. If it’s a business this is even more critical to monitor and manage backups daily. How much is your data worth to you? How much money would you lose if you lost your data and it was completely irretrievable? How bad would it be if you lost a month, a week, or even just a day?
Here’s a great video that explains one of the major reasons to stay on top of regular backups.
Ask support@twinbytes.ca to help you with quoting what is required for your backup solution. Call us to learn more about our online data backup services and managed data backup.
Be sure to ask as about the difference between File backups versus Image backups, and bare metal backups.