The computer has become ubiquitous in today’s times. All the work, any work in fact is in one way or the other connected with computers. From the public sector to the private sector, computers are on desks everywhere. Earlier, when information and data used to be stored in files and folders, today this data is stored in its electronic format in computers.
The space crunch was felt here too and hence conventional storage devices like the pen drive, the hard disks and such like were invented. However, like earlier storage options, even electronic data stored on these mediums is not entirely safe. You can lose your important data if the computer or data system crashes. Also, this data is susceptible to damage and malfunction, resulting in loss of valuable data.
Here is when online backup or online storage comes into the picture. With online backup, you can now store all your valuable information on the internet in ‘online vaults’. Now, in the event of any data loss, theft or malfunction, you can easily access this stored data to get back all your lost information without having to go through the tedious and time consuming process of re-preparing the data and continue as if nothing happened.
Since all this data is stored in real time, when you do back up, you will not only get a file that was saved last week but also the latest stored data. This online vault can be accessed only with the help of your unique username and password and is hence much safer than the conventional data storage devices.
