Until a few years ago, the terms ‘data protection’ and disaster recovery’ were common only among the largest business enterprises, but today this is synonymous with every business, big or small, or even home based units.
With a highly competitive business environment, aspects like data recovery and data protection are perceived as a necessity. This new trend underscores the importance of maintaining some sort of backup system to protect the data from being lost.
There are various methods to secure your data. Hard disc imaging, also termed cloning is a simple way in which the time taken is minimal and also one need not have high technological acumen to follow this procedure.
On the other hand, the remote online backup method has a particular advantage that even in case of disaster striking the business premises or home where the main computers are located; there will not be any damage to the data. This is a cost effective way of back up because the companies who offer these service have sophisticated technology to back up the data.
The next solution is called external storage devices. Most common of this variety are the external hard device and memory sticks.
