By Ben Puzzuoli, Director Sales & Marketing at DataDepositBox
July 06, 2015

DataDepositBox Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Protecting and Restoring Multiple File Versions or Deleted Files

A complete data backup strategy is important to your data security. Too many enterprises wait until disaster strikes before they think about a backup. With increasing mobility, the work environment in most organizations is undergoing a sea change. For most working professionals these days, the regular nine to five work day is a thing of the past. These new age knowledge workers are used to logging in from home, at work, in cafes, on the move at all hours of day and night.

Protection of laptop and desktop data has become a key requirement of many businesses.

Organizations like law, medical and consulting firms rely a lot on constantly changing data. Lost data can significantly affect productivity, customer satisfaction, and, ultimately, revenue.Losing key business information not only reduces productivity, but also creates application outages, project delays, and diverted resources. Re-creating lost data can consume large amounts of time, and depending on the source, some data may not be recoverable at all.

What’s more, it is no longer enough to back up this data periodically. The most valuable files are usually the ones that users have worked on most recently. Unlike traditional backup methods, the ideal backup solution retains multiple versions of each file online for easy retrieval. At any point in time, several versions of each file are stored and available for you.

For example, assume that you open an existing Word document as a template for a new proposal you are working on. After making your changes, you save the document. Then you realize you just saved the document without changing the name, losing the original. With your backup solution having the ability to restore from multiple file versions, you can now view all the versions of the file and retrieve back the file before the changes were made. This is a common mistake and one that you can now correct, quickly and easily.

In the event that you accidentally overwrite, delete, or need to go back to a previous version of a file, an easy graphical user interface allows you to see all versions of the file that are available, and you can easily restore any or all of the files back to your computer with a few simple clicks on your mouse. When a restore is necessary, the IT professional or the user can searches through the local repository to see if a recent, good version of the deleted file exists.

There are more organizations having an increasing presence of remote workers who work from different parts of the world. The work they render makes up 60 to 70 percent of all corporate data. And it is all increasingly vulnerable to data loss and corruption. The companies which back up data only once every 24 hours and not having multiple file versions risk losing eight or more hours most recent and therefore most valuable output. Instead, businesses need a continuous, real-time backup and recovery solution that enables users to roll back to various points in time.

Data Deposit Box enables SMBs and enterprises to control their data that they own and help them save up on space and costs as soon as they initiate a backup or schedule a backup to kick start automatically. No manual intervention is called for, and you can rest assure that your data is de­-duplicated and saved into the remote server.

About the Author: Ben Puzzuoli is Director of Sales & Marketing at DataDepositBox, a Toronto based cloud data backup service provider, which is listed at both the Toronto and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges. DataDepositBox technologies and solutions are currently used daily by over 200,000 customers, 1,000 resellers, 25 MSPs and private label partners for online backup and recovery, archiving, disaster readiness, secure file sharing and remote access. Visit DDB website here: www.DataDepositBox.com

 

 

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