Rochester Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery
I speak with many customers and prospective customers regarding disaster recovery. No matter how many times I hear it, I still get surprised at how many companies have no interest in storing their mission critical data off-site.
There’s a great story I’d like to share about one of our customers that had recently signed up for our disaster recovery services. He is in the medical industry (a dentist) and all of the patient information was stored on a local server. The building is fairly old and by no means was this building fireproof. He took all the precautions with RAID drives and swapping drives in and out to ensure he won’t lose his data due to a drive or hardware failure. I have spoken with him on several occasions on how important it was to store this information off-site in a safe, secure datacenter. He always reassured me his information was safe and nothing would ever happen. After realizing the small expense it was to back this up off-site, the decision to move forward with off-site backup was an insurance policy that was worth the peace of mind. So he finally signed up for our backup services.
One morning he arrived in his office and his server was dead. There was a cooling issue within the building and the extreme heat fried his server. All the hard drives were dead so the RAID configuration didn’t save him. All the data was lost. Lucky for him, BackupSpace automatically backed up all his data to the cloud the night before. Without any intervention, the software backed up the entire server on schedule. There was some inconvenience in restoring the data, but that’s all it was, an inconvenience. He didn’t lose any mission critical data or information. And if he ever gets hit with an audit, all of his records are still intact.
The moral of the store is simple. Don’t wait for a disaster to strike before you start to plan for disaster recovery. EarthLink has a variety of DR plans to meet your specific needs. Contact one of our sales engineers today to learn more.
