Remote backup

Computers affect the way we live, communicate, work, and entertain today more than ever before. So, the information stored on them becomes very significant. Loosing data from your hard drive is at least unpleasant, but in some cases also very expensive. At the same time, not all of us take measures to protect their data. Moreover, day after day we hear about alarming accidents of data loss. But why reliable backup strategies are not as much widespread as data crash accidents? – Perhaps, because people have some wrong notions about backup software and about the problem of data loss in general.

Precious personal and work data is stored in a computer’s hard disk, but no hard disk is perfect. Sometimes they die, and so does the information stored. Furthermore, viruses, human errors and even natural disasters or theft can take away your data without any chance of restoring. One reliable solution for the problem of data loss is backup software that makes reserve copies of your critical data automatically. There is a great variety of such data-safe program to choose from. But why do people still ignore this software?

In this article we’ll try to denote some possible reasons of ignoring backup software and to destroy some myths about backup preventing people from using it. We have summarized these notions in four common «myths» and will try to expose them.• Myth 1: The risk of data loss is insignificant

Some people believe that data loss is not their problem.

Why don’t they care? Because they just know nothing about possible crucial hardware faults and destructive effect of such faults on the stored information.

Actually, there are high risks of data loss. According to the survey conducted by Verio (Global Premier Provider of Online Services), fifty-three percent of respondents have already experienced an actual loss of information that was stored on a PC. Six percent of PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year. 31% of PC users have ever lost all of their files due to events beyond their control.

The reasons of losing data may vary greatly – power faults, short life of the hardware, viruses or hacker attacks… The fact is: you can irretrievably lose the information stored on your home or work computer (i.e. project data, email correspondence, personal information, irreparable and urgent documents) if the hard disk crashes.

Learn by others’ mistakes: thoughtless attitude toward data backup has fatal consequences. Most people and organizations come to understand this only after loosing their crucial data accidentally. With special backup software your data is more likely to be always on hand.• Myth 2: Copying files manually is more effective

Some people are aware of the risk of data loss and try to deal with this problem without special backup software. These people protect the data on their own.

Common practice for such people is copying data to digital media occasionally. In other words, they copy their data without any backup software. Of course, it is better than nothing. But is it enough for guaranteed data protection? You can simply forget to make a backup before a hard disk fault, and your previous backup work will become sheer waste of time. Moreover, you can forget to copy some files which you may need most of all after data loss.

With special backup software you can use automated procedures for regular backup and synchronization under your own schedule. Backup software will do all the routine work on copying files for you, you only need to set what, when and where you wish to backup.

In other words, manual copying of files is not as reliable and comfortable as using special data backup software.• Myth 3: Backup software sufficiently slows down computer performance

Some people think that backup jobs require too much hardware resources (space on a disk and CPU time) and it is tiresome to run them often. They suspect that backup software will impede using computer for work, entertainment or other purposes.

In fact, most backup programs are not resource-consuming. A typical backup program requires only operation system installed and about 5 Mb free disk space for program files. So, if your computer meets these requirements you have nothing to worry about. In other words, if you computer can have an operation system running, it will easily run a backup program.

Moreover, with a scheduler you can set your backup operations execution on the most convenient time. For example, during lunch time or when you sleep. Moreover, some backup programs can run in service mode. In service mode, the backup is independent from the currently logged in user. The benefit is that your backup tasks are processed even if somebody else is using the system at the moment or if nobody is logged in at all.

As you see, with a good backup program you can perform reserve copying operations in any time you wish. It means that you can have backups running when you are idle, and they will not interfere with your work.• Myth 4: Using backup software is difficult, time-consuming and expensive

Imaginary difficulties of data backup procedures make users think about backup as a waste of time and money and as the result refuse it, hoping for the best.

We are busy at work, family and friends fill our days and leave us little time for boring things like computer maintenance. But backing up data is much easier than it seems.

Please forget fairy tales about baffling complexity of backup programs! Most of backup programs have Wizards with intuitive user interface which let you configure your backup task with ease.

A typical backup program can be installed within several minutes. Setting a backup task takes several minutes more. That’s all. Then the backup program will take care of your crucial data.

After all, the price of such a program (30-70$ for single license) is far less then the costs of data loss.

We have tried to expose some myths about backup and to mark some positive abilities that backup software gives us. Today’s backup software offers comfortable way to make reserve copies of your crucial data. As more people get familiar with automated backup solutions, they tend to become must-have software, along with e-mail clients, word processors and anti-virus programs.

Of course not, but I read threads every day from businesses (on various Internet forums) that have lost their data because their website violated the Terms of Services (TOS) of their host. Often their sites are taken down without notice. Some scenarios were because the client didn’t keep their security patches up-to-date, then were hacked. Others were because they were using a shared IP and that IP was blacklisted for spam violations - maybe not that specific IP - just in that range.

So are you prepared to lose your data?

Seems like a ridiculous question, but many aren’t prepared because they have no plan beyond simply trusting that their web host will provide back ups if necessary. I write about disaster recovery moreso than any other topic because of the severity related to losing mission critical data. More often than not, if you lose your data, you lose your business - or it’s severely impacted.

When selecting a web host, read their Terms of Service carefully - they’re there to protect the host and you, spelling out legal expectations. Regardless, use due diligence to formulate a disaster recovery and business continuity plan that includes routinely scheduled remote offsite backup. Prepare for a worst case scenario.

I relate this to car or health insurance. I hate to pay that bill each month, but I know it’s for my own protection. If you’re the owner or president of your company, you owe it to your clients and employees to secure your business. Stuff happens. It can and does happen to businesses just like yours everyday.

Multiple hard drives in a RAID array fail simultaneously (defective lot). You thought RAID was your backup solution, but turns out - it wasn’t.

Fire destroys your servers and DAT tape drive. You forgot to take that tape offsite last night.

Web host locks access to your server because your bookkeeper didn’t pay the bill. I see lots of posts related to this where the recommendation generally is - be nice to the host and maybe they’ll let you have access to your data.

Bottom line

Set aside some time to review and update your disaster recovery and business continuity plan if you have one. If you don’t have one - keep your fingers crossed and hope that Murphys Law passes you by and hits that business down the street first.

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@royz83 Kan wel, maar dan je via SSH wat handmatig werk gaan verrichten. Ik zou een rejailbreak uitvoeren (eerst backup maken)

My homeboy says I should backup my pc on dvd because hard drives fail, but I don’t use my external that much and that’s a lot of disks

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With almost everyone switching to digital formats for videos and pictures your computer becomes a very important asset. Your computer allows you to e-mail photos to family and friends as well as edit and print photos at home. One drawback to the convenience of using your computer store photos and videos is the risk of losing all that data if your drive crashes or a whole range of other problems occur. Luckily, there are safe and reliable online photo backup services available today at a low cost. On average, the cost of recovering files is $7500 and your files may not always be completely recovered. When you consider the low cost of a backup service site, you are really safer and money ahead in the long run. You also have to consider the amount of time it takes as well. Sitting around for weeks without important personal or even work related documents can make life frustrating to say the least.There are several things that can go wrong with your computer like drive crashes, viruses, power surges, accidental deletion, and even fires. With all these possibilities, it becomes apparent why an online photo backup service would be both smart and useful. For those people with laptops, there is only about a 3% chance your laptop will be recovered if it is stolen. Even then, the condition it is in when returned to you may make it unusable. Also, on average 43% of people lose files that are irreplaceable. Photos fall into that category. Once lost, they are gone forever, and there are many photos containing special memories that can’t be replaced. An easy way to ensure you have all your important pictures safe and secure is to use a site offering backup services.You can use free sharing websites as a substitute or as a replacement backup service, but these sites aren’t always as secure as sites offering backup services like Mozy or Carbonite. Backup sites allow you to use online photo backups and are often safer and easier to use. Once you download their application, the programs can monitor your files and automatically backup new files as well as changes ones. You don’t have to do anything to the programs, just continue using your computer like you normally do.

HIPAA, Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions, defines rules and requirement on privacy and security practices of health care information. In Title II, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) outlines regulations for the use and dissemination of individual health care information.These rules apply to covered entities, including health plans, health care clearinghouses, such as outsourced billing companies and community health information systems and health care providers that transmit health care information in a way that is regulated by HIPAA. [Code of Federal RegulationsTitle 45, Volume 1]The Privacy Rule establishes regulations for the use and disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI). PHI is any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that can be linked to a person. This includes any part of a patient’s medical record or payment history. [Code of Federal Regulations. Title 45, Volume 1]Security Rule deals specifically with Electronic Protected Health Information (EPHI) and requires Administrative Safeguards - policies and procedures designed to clearly show how the entity will comply with the actCovered entities that out-source parts of their business processes to a trusted third party must ensure that their vendors also have a framework in place to comply with HIPAA requirements. Companies typically gain this assurance through clauses in the contracts stating that the vendor will meet the same data protection requirements that apply to the covered entity. Care must be taken to determine if the vendor further out-sources any data handling functions to other vendors and monitor whether appropriate contracts and controls are in place.A contingency plan should be in place for responding to emergencies. Covered entities are responsible for backing up their data and having disaster recovery procedure. The plan should document data priority and failure analysis, testing activities, and change control procedures.Internal audits play a key role in HIPAA compliance by reviewing operations with the goal of identifying potential security violations. Audits should be both routine and event-based.In order to have an online backup that is HIPAA compliant you need to meet all the requirements of the Final HIPAA Security rule dated February 2003 and required after April 21, 2005.  You should ensure that a backup provider exceeds the standards set in the security rule by encrypting all data before it is sent over a secure SSL connection to the remote backup service. An effective solution is to have the Encryption Key generated by the customer and is known only to the customer and to ensure that the Key is not transmitted to the HIPAA compliant online backup server.  A HIPAA online backup provider should encrypted the data on the server with military grade encryption and not accessible to the backup provider or employees.  Ensure that the local backup client encrypts all data prior to transmission to the remote systems. Data can only be recovered by transmitting it back to the local client that decrypts the data using the encryption key.

i have to identify two network operating systems which can maintain a backup system, set up network security and also provide remote access, could you please help me to identify 2 possible operating systems, thanks

Well it seems that you are not alone, according to one headline news there are more than 280 million people around the world are reported to have found themselves in the same position during the last three years.Today we live in digital-era; we work with computers or other digital media and gadgets. We rely more than ever on our personal computers (PC) or personal digital assistant (PDA). Personal data such as photos, internet bookmarks, email, contact lists, financial records, and office documents are some of the data difficult to replace.Most people don’t realize how much they have invested into the data on their digital storage like hard drive or removable USB disk. Just imagine how depressing and disastrous we are to know that some day these valuable data gone forever in a second just because of the hardware failure occur suddenly or other common causes. These could cost you several days of productivity. While we are living in the super busy world, time is money, and then you should ask yourself “How much is my time worth to me?”What would you do if you lost all of your data today? As data loss can happen in many ways without warning at any point in time and you perhaps have “everything” saved on your computer hard drive then you should think about backup routine as soon as possible. Having a good and reliable data backup is like having a “life insurance” for your important data. You don’t have to suffer business downtime, loss of time and money, and loss of business reputation.

PROCESSOR Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor E2180 (1MB, 2.00GHz, 800FSB)
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OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Service Pack 1
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MONITOR 20 inch E207WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel edit
MEMORY 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
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OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD+/-RW Drive edit
VIDEO CARD ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO 256MB edit
SOUND Integrated Sound Blaster®Audigy™ HD Software Edition edit
KEYBOARD & MOUSE Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse edit
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER No Floppy Drive Included edit
MODEM No Modem Option edit
My Software & Accessories
SPEAKERS Dell AX210 1.2W Speakers edit
ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE McAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware,
firewall, 30-Days edit
OFFICE SOFTWARE Microsoft Works 9.0 edit
My Service
WARRANTY AND SERVICE 1Yr Ltd HW WRTY, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis,
24×7 Phone Support edit
DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP Included 3 GB DataSafe Online Backup for 1Yr edit
ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM
Mouse Mouse included with Keyboard purchase
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1
Network Interface Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium
PHOTO AND MUSIC SOFTWARE No Entertainment software pre-installed
Starting Price $844

its a Intel® Pentium® Dual Core T2390 (1.86GHz/533Mhz FSB/1MB cache). Here’s everything it has:
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® SP1 Home Premium Edition edit
HD DISPLAY Glossy, widescreen 15.4 inch display (1280×800) edit
VIDEO CARD Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 edit
MEMORY 3GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz edit
HARD DRIVE Size: 250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) edit
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE CD / DVD Writer (DVD+/-RW Drive) edit
WIRELESS NETWORK CARDS Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Mini-Card edit
INTEGRATED WEBCAM Integrated 2.0M Pixel Webcam edit
BATTERY OPTIONS 6 cell battery edit
SOUND OPTIONS High Definition Audio 2.0
ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE McAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 30-Days edit
OFFICE SOFTWARE Special Offer:Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 edit
My Service
WARRANTY AND SERVICE 1Yr Ltd HW WRTY, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis, 24×7 Phone Support edit
DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP: Included 3 GB DataSafe Online Backup for 1Yr edit
DIAL-UP INTERNET ACCESS: Earthlink Internet Access
Network: Integrated 10/100 Network Card
Modem: Integrated Modem
Adobe Software: Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1
Labels: Windows Vista™ Premium
Processor: Branding Intel Pentium® Dual-Core Processor
DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP: No DataSafe
I’m not a pro at computers so I’d like pros and cons of Dell or this actual model. Thanks.
P.S. I’m a college student so I will be mostly using it for long nights of homework, web surfing, video chat using msn messenger or skype, email, i like to take a lot of pictures so editing pics is good, downloading music to my ipod, etc..
Does this laptop suit my needs? Is dell a good brand?
Please and Thank you!