Thursday, November 29, 2012

Why You Should Or Shouldn't Use An Online Backup System To Hold Your Important Data

By Ralph S. Brooks


Data loss is a major problem everyone has come across once in their life. Anybody who uses a computer is aware of the experience. Every single day we copy, delete, paste and store documents within our computers. When you check your data files, you may also find files kept years ago.

The information all of us keep in our computers may seem unimportant to some; vacation pictures, word files or music, however we feel the punch after we realize it's misplaced. Many years of pictures gone and we foolishly failed to remember to have a copy or store it somewhere else. Trusting our computers to keep all of our files may be expecting a lot from an inanimate object. It could only do so much and so, having backup storage can be a great idea; an external hard drive, CDs or tapes, etc.

Many people may have heard cloud computing, more known as the Cloud. It is how an online backup functions. Generally, there's a cloud that keeps your entire files that you can access from another computer or mobile phone provided that you have web connection. The data is stored in an off-site data center.

Most companies who offer online backup systems may provide an IP address for you to be able to gain access to your files. Nevertheless, the information can be moved from one place to another depending on the provider's means of managing the information.

Pros of utilizing an online backup system

*One point about this kind of backup is that it is accessible. Anywhere there's internet, you can get your documents. You don't need to use a USB flash drive or any storage device with you all the time. This is extremely good for people who travel a lot and want to get their files all set any time.

*Online backup systems are easy to handle. Absolutely user-friendly; easy to set-up and simple enough to become managed by an average individual.

*Online backup is certainly less expensive than a software type backup. Although there are still costly online backup systems in the market. This will depend on the size of storage space you will be taking.

*The backup does not get affected in any way whenever your gadget becomes taken or fails for any reason. It's safe from damage should something happen to your computer.

Cons of utilizing an online backup system

*Security breach is highly possible. Remember, you're saving your data in a cloud on the internet. And also the internet can easily be hacked by any computer whiz.

*Privacy can be hard to obtain when utilizing this kind of backup since your data files are kept in a "cloud". You're never sure how many people have accessibility to the main storage space.

*It depends on the internet. When you saved a lot of files in your backup, the recovery is dependent to your internet connection. If your connection is slow and you are extracting big files, it will take a very long time to have those files all set. This is primarily the reason why authorities rule against this type of backup for large volume of files.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment