Data Backup: Tape Backup Vs. Offsite Online Backup

Backing up my files - Making the right choice

Labor Time

• Tape Backup: Longer recovery times = lost productivity
• Online Backup: Data retrieval is immediate with the click of the mouse.

Software Costs

• Tape Backup: License fees are charged based on the number of computers required for backup. There usually is a fee for the master backup software licence as well.
• Online Backup: No software fees. Our software can be installed on unlimited computers completely free of cost.

Service/ Support Fees

• Tape Backup: Setting up and maintaining a tape drive frequently requires a technician to setup the hardware and keep the software.
• Online Backup: Pay as you grow model - exclusive fee for the storage you use, when you use it. Our Software is easy point and click with full featured videos as bright-eyed as real person chat and phone support

Hardware Costs

• Tape Backup: Tape backup operate & tapes which can be expensive
• Online Backup: The system is a software based backup, all hardware is on our end. We use only top of the limit hardware and are constantly upgrading our end to offer the most efficient backup thought available today

Media Required

• Tape Backup: Multiple tapes average $40 a piece (approx 30 are needed for one month and their shelf life is short)
• Online Backup: All media is purchased by the Online Backup Company at no supplementary costs to the end user.

Security

• Tape Backup: Anyone can steal these tapes and recover them on another PC
• Online Backup: Online Backup Companies employment fully secure information backup solution; Online backup Companies use the same encryption that most USA Banks and US Army use.

Restoration Allotment

Laptop Support

• Tape Backup: Not easily.
• Online Backup: Your system can be backed up from anywhere there is an Internet connection