What would be the disadvantages of not having a network backup software? Of course, in addition to not having a recovery mechanism in case of loss or failure of data, there would be no contingency and this situation would likely catastrophically impact a company’s information resource.
The best network backup software seeks to evenly distribute the load and operation wherever possible among its various elements, such as servers, clients, storage devices, notifications, etc., in order to balance the workload and avoid overloading of any of these elements.
To meet the objective of protecting the information, two different schemes are used for the destination of the volumes: local and remote localities. Although they ultimately fulfill the same objective – the secure repository of backups – their use is different.
The local locations are used generally for the backup of the information of equipment located in the same physical space or in different localities, relatively easily accessible and at a close distance through a LAN network. Although this is a common property of all network backup software applications, its main use is information recovery in case of partial or total losses.
On the other hand, remote locations allow companies to have recovery mechanisms in case of situations which may not only cause loss of information, but also those that significantly affect the daily and normal operation of the whole organization as a consequence of situations that are outside of its control — such as natural disasters, thefts, infrastructure failures, among others.
A resource widely used today, is cloud storage, using different providers such as Amazon (storage S3), Microsoft (resources in Azure), Google (file systems and devices) and other cloud hosting services, both public and private. For the latter, it is vitally important to have adequate levels of security and optimization of bandwidth management.
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