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We all know we are supposed to back up our important files, our data and so on but did you know you can now back up your whole business, without even using a server? That's right. Online backup and storage services allow you to make virtual copies, or "mirrors" of your whole business's computer presence every station, every server, the whole network and ship them out to secure locations in cyberspace, where responsible companies maintain them until the day your in house hardware falls apart and you need an alternative. You can even run your businesses from these things activating them completely, you just use the terminals in your office as you always did, only now you're operating online, in the virtual copy
of your servers and networks.
These days, online backup and storage services are able to mirror or mimic anything you have in the "real world", in an unlimited cyber vault that is impervious to equipment breakdown because it doesn't completely exist on any equipment. It does, to a degree, of course but all of your data, your files, your OS, everything, is migrated so often and stored in so many places that the death of any one actual server or hard drive means nothing. To all intents and purposes, your computing power and the accessibility of your whole business set up is moved to the less fragile realms of network space.
These kinds of online backup and storage services have their origins in the idea of cloud computing which is a techie's fancy way of saying that you keep all your data in the ether, rather than in hard drives, and access it using satellite computers. The backup service is not designed to replace your actual office system fully: it could, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of its being a backup. The idea behind storing data online, and backing it up online to this extent, is simply that you can resurrect the whole office through this ghostly "mirror server" that your data storage company has made for you not that you should. Ultimately those virtual servers are there for your protection rather than your everyday use.
That doesn't change the fact, mind, that online backup and storage services, these days, bear as much resemblance to the old magnetic tape and filing cabinet system as a single gear stick does to the entire traffic system of a capital city. We're talking orders of magnitude here a whole different level of backup and storage technology, which is allowing businesses to suffer what would have been critical equipment failures and carry on almost without noticing. A really good online backup system will just take over when the real one is in trouble and when the real one has been fixed, the ghost version will update it so that all new files are kept in both places.
We all know that online backup and storage services are necessary for safe business computing. Now we know they're actually convenient too.
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