Know your gear
Data loss can occur as the result of viruses, data corruption, natural disasters or other data mishaps. Backup best practices incorporate multiple copies and off-site storage.
Proper backup is essential to business survival.
1. Daily 2. Weekly 3. Off-Site
1. Daily Use tape one for Monday-Thursday backups of daily (incremental) file changes.
2. Weekly(two cartridges) Use tape two for a full backup on Friday. Use tape three for a full backup the following Friday, and alternate the two weekly tapes thereafter.
3. Off-Site Store the weekly full backups off-site in a secure location.
Imation’s Travan NS20 is a multi-functional storage solution with 20GB compressed capacity. The high capacity of Travan technology means you can do more than back up your data. You can use it to offload files from your hard drives to free up space, create an archive for near-line storage, or download files from the Internet.
1. Daily 2. Weekly 3. Off-Site
1. Daily Use tape one for Monday-Thursday backups of daily (incremental) file changes.
2. Weekly(two cartridges) Use tape two for a full backup on Friday. Use tape three for a full backup the following Friday, and alternate the two weekly tapes thereafter.
3. Off-Site Store the weekly full backups off-site in a secure location.
Imation’s Travan NS20 is a multi-functional storage solution with 20GB compressed capacity. The high capacity of Travan technology means you can do more than back up your data. You can use it to offload files from your hard drives to free up space, create an archive for near-line storage, or download files from the Internet.