The biggest issue companies face when doing remote or off-site backups, is the amount of time it takes to complete these backups. Normally companies would do Master backups (Complete System Backups) every day to a tape drive or something local. What if you want to backup to a Remote Site using only a standard cable connection?
The best way around this dilemma is to switch up how you run backups. For example, we at Lone Star ALWAYS recommend this backup scheme when doing it Off-Site:
- Do 2 Master Backups a week (Preferably at the beginning and at the end of the week).
- Do the rest of the days using an Incremental Backup which backs up ONLY the files that have changed since your last successful Master backup.
So if you ever had to deal with a Disaster Recovery Restore using our product, all you would have to do to be back up and running would be to restore your latest LONE-TAR Master backup first, then restore your latest LONE-TAR Incremental backup next. It is that easy.
This method says you time and money! Especially if you are paying an off-site data center money for each GB used.
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