ARE YOU DOING ENOUGH TO PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS?

Your data is important. Its probably taken a long time to prepare & would cause you serious problems if it were lost.

Its essential in business to have contingency plans, insurers usually insist on these for computers, and a major part of these plans involve having adequate backups.

Until recently, backups were usually onto tapes. Recently the price/capacity ratio of tapes has seen them become more expensive for the larger hard disks of today as servers & pcs storage capacity has rocketed.

We now recommend that even if you have a tape backup you also need a secondary form of backup to improve your chances of quickly restoring your business in the event of disaster. The two methods that we recommend are offsite backup & external hard disks.

Laverton now offer to our customers a new offline secure backup service. Offline backup consists of backing up over the internet, usually overnight when your network isn't in use, and is stored safely & securely on servers away from your premises. You choose what you want to backup.

External hard disks are about the size of a hardback book. These plug into your server & can be scheduled to backup overnight. They usually have a relatively large capacity so an ideal solution is to have two, with one stored offsite & swap them daily. They are also relatively inexpensive & are useful for backing up for almost anybody.

Remember the cost of losing data is high - data recovery can cost up to £1600 at 2007 prices in the event of hardware failure.

Our backup plans start at just £5 per month, please call us on 01765 530021 if you like to discuss any backup options.