Offsite Data Protection Strategies

Think of a vast share market business where transactions take place in every fraction of a second. Now think of a natural disaster like earthquake in the area where all this processing takes place. Naturally, a big loss is inevitable. The difficulty is in recovery.

Offsite Data Protection is a strategy that takes hold of the lost data. This has back up systems that are not located within the territory of an office so that the off-sites themselves do not suffer from any damage. This way, data can be recovered from an off-site location. But how does it really work? Lets find out.

Offsite Data Protection and offsite data recovery is a strategy of sending the critical data electronically (known as Electronic Vaulting or E-Vaulting) or by some removable storage device to another location. A removable device could be a magnetic tape and the data can be sent electronically by a remote backup service. This transfer takes place under the Disaster Recovery Plan.

Offsite backups are either managed by the organization itself or by some third party members, that hold specialization in commercial protection.

An off-line remote back-up system is a type of file hosting service that can be used as stores for all the data that we have. This means there is no need to be restrained when using the on line space. All your files can be uploaded in a remote system.

The Offsite Data Protection and recovery backup strategies provide the following:

  1. Backup services for servers, laptops and workstations.
  2. No employee intervention is required as these off-site services are fully automatic.
  3. Payment is proportionate to use.
  4. The traditional backup service is dual redundant.
  5. The unlimited backup sets for easy restoration.
  6. There are eight different encryption levels to choose from.
  7. No long term contracts are required.
  8. Backup service is available for mapped drives and a lot more.

There are three categories of commercial vaults available for the storage of data at off-site locations. These are underground vaults which are often cold war military facilities or mines that are not currently in use. Then we have the freestanding vaults and the insulated chambers.

Utmost care is usually taken of critical data in the commercial vaults. Off-site data storage or vaulting is important because it addresses every aspect of data protection. For example, it takes care of archive tapes being stored at suitable temperature and humidity under the environmental storage standards. It also keeps duplicate copies of these tapes at different geographical locations. Backup set ups are regularly removed and allotted from the sites, backup copies are regularly checked for operating platform, recovery software and other applications that were originally used by the organization etc.

Organizations located in earthquake prone areas or natural calamity prone areas employ offsite data protection measures. With offsite data protection measures, critical data can be recovered easily.