Data Protection

If your firm is still using a nightly backup routine to then you are among the many that are doing the bare minimum to safeguard your data.  According to USENIX annual failure rates for hard drives range between 2% and 10%.  Hard drive failures are typically the most damaging to businesses but are also the among easiest to recover form with proper backup methods.  New technologies in backup, protection, and recovery make it simple form small and large offices alike to do much more with less effort. 

A typical nightly backup is well capable of collecting all of the data but the recovery may take days to complete, which means thousands of dollars in IT time and lost work are lost.

There are many inexpensive and simple ways of extending your current data protection methods.  For instance, Windows built-in services like Volume Shadow Copy enable each server to retain multiple versions of files in case someone accidently (or intentionally) damages a document. 

Furthermore, you can protect your server with powerful imaging software that snapshots your server and makes it easy to restore in case of a failure.  Lawex Corporation has partnered with StorageCraft to provide fast and reliable online backup and bare metal recovery for Windows servers.

StorageCraft™ ShadowProtect creates an exact online backup of your entire system, including the operating system, applications, configuration settings and critical data with zero downtime. ShadowProtect provides a simple view to restore or update files and folders to your existing backup image files. Save backups to any disk device including USB, Firewire, attached storage devices such as NAS and SAN and any network location.

If you would like to learn more about what your office can do to protect your data call 800.377.5844 and speak with out network consultants about your options.