HNOS Online Backup Services

Why use a online (remote) backup service?   To protect your most valuable business asset: YOUR DATA!

Backing up data (via the Internet) is a more efficient and easier way to back up your PC files.   Files are securely encrypted, copied, and then backed up to servers in a remote data center.  This keeps valuable data safe from things like theft, floods, fires, accidential deletions, or even hard drive crashes.

You might already use CDs/DVDs or external hard drives to back up your data.  The main difference and benefit that online backup offers over those options is convenience.   To be honest, backing up your PC is usually not a priority : you forget to do it; you don't how to do it; or it might be just too much of a hassle and can take a long time.  An online backup service manages the back up process for you.

Our automated, reliable, secure and easy-to-use data backup service will save you time, money, and in the case of a disaster, your business.

Managed Online Backup Solution
HNOS has partnered with several global technology companies to provide on-line backup/restore services for Windows desktops, laptops, and servers.  These services are low-cost, low maintenance solutions with robust security to ensure the protection of your off-site data.  With rates as low as $7.00/month for laptops/desktops, and $11.00/month for Windows servers, can you afford not to consider an on-line backup strategy for your valuable data?

Please call 613-968-0840 or email info@hnos.ca for further information or to schedule a one month trial subscription.

Data Backup Strategies
Managing "data" properly has become a critical function in business. As more and more data is needed (and stored) in order to keep your business running, selecting an appropriate backup strategy is now critical!

There are two main points to keep in mind when deciding on a backup strategy: recovery time objective (RTO), and recovery point objective (RPO). RTO is the time it takes to restore data to point where your business processes can resume operation. RPO is a specfic point in time that you can restore your data to.

As an example, you have a hard drive failure at 11:00am. The last backup was done around midnight (11 hours ago) and it required two 200GB LTO tapes to complete. Your RTO would be several hours to restore the data (two tapes) but your RPO would only be midnight since no data was backed up between midnight and the time your hard drive failed. You would in fact be missing 11 hours worth of data!


You have several choices on backup media depending on the amount of data to be backed up:

Media	Pros	Cons
CD/DVD	inexpensive, long shelf life, easy to transport	very slow backup speed, limited capacity
Ext. hard disk	very fast backup speed, large capacity	susceptible to environmental conditions (heat/cold, shock, etc)
Tape	moderate price (depending on tape capacity), large capacity, long shelf life	slower than disk, but much faster than CD/DVD
On-line	extremely cost effective, typically backs up automatically, data is off-site	requires reliable Internet connection