Kevin Ackland, talks on backup software for Small Business Servers.
You may have thought that you would need to spend an additional £350 (+VAT) on backup software to get your data backups working properly. Our experience is that the Microsoft Backup that comes with the Small Business Server is easier to use and fully comprehensive.
One reason why so many small companies go for a Small Business Server is to formalise their data backup. Insurance companies insist on specific methods of data backup before they will insure you, these methods must adhere to our 3 principles of data backup.
As your support company it will be our engineers that will have to get your server back to useful life again and we are confident that the Free Backup program that comes with the small business server works very well. Our current recommendation for tape backup is to use a specific standard that means that each tape will hold 400GB of data. That’s massive, combined with the Microsoft Backup program your data is covered. Here is information on our tape drive offer.
One reason why the free backup program being better is its simplicity. It just works and doesn’t complain or find a silly reason not to backup. Sure the expensive ones have more facilities and more features but these are often used in bigger companies with much more complicated data backup requirements. The most important thing we need is a backup of the data and that’s what the small business server backup delivers.
I would recommend that we always perform the setting up of the backup as it’s something that we do all the time, our engineers had to pass exams with backup on the subject matter. It is understandable from a users point of view, it is something that you would be able to do yourself if you wanted.
If you wouldlike to know more about Small Business Networks then please email me or telephone 01993 706161 and I will be able to explain how you can get a server working productively for you.
Kevin Ackland.