Data Loss: Floods & Hurricanes

If your tapes are sitting on top of your computer when a flood suddenly strikes, you will have wasted every dollar and every minute you ever spent on backups up until that point.

As Hurricanes Katrina, Ophelia and Rita and the Pacific Tsunami have proven, 2005 is likely to be the most devastating tropical storm season on record. Wind and floods destroyed or damaged thousands of businesses and homes. The cost of data loss can be immeasurably high -- unless you have a reliable offsite data backup solution like Remote Data Backups in place.

We've gotten calls from numerous clients in Louisiana, Mississippi and other affected areas who are grateful they had the foresight to use our service. Their financial, accounting, email correspondence and other mission critical data is automatically stored offsite in the safety of our two state-of-the-art data centers. Even if their office is completely destroyed, they can quickly and easily restore all their data to the way it was before disaster struck.

When storms strike, they can be quick, unexpected and absolutely devastating. And if your backups are not stored a safe distance away from flooded districts, they more than likely will also be unrecoverable along with the computer itself. It does not take much water (especially dirty water) to ruin both your hard drive and the backup tapes or disks.

Unless you have a regular offsite backup solution, floods and hurricanes have the potential to completely wipe out both your computer and all its backups. In addition to losing your computer with all the digital data, floods can easily destroy all the original hard copies of your data also, thus making re-creation of the data impossible.