One of the reasons we love our Live Backup BDR (Backup and Disaster Recovery) service is that we know that our clients data is off site.
We got called to a company yesterday. Their office had been burnt to the ground by an electrical fire.
Their backups were in a fire proof safe in the office. Fire proof safes aren’t as fireproof as you might think. All their data was burnt to a crisp.
We set them up with a loan PC and a router with a 3G connection to get them back on-line (all the phone lines had been burnt out), which is something. But they have lost all of their data. They seem a resilient enough lot that I hope they will survive, and fortunately no-one was hurt in the fire, but it is going to be a stressful time for them to get back up to speed.
If you are still backing up with tape or disk, are they going off-site? Is the member of staff in charge doing it?
Time to check!
I’ve been using it today. Better than Google? No.
But not to worry, apparently Microsoft are no longer trying to beat Google at the search engine game. They now have their sites firmly set on Yahoo! instead. Yahoo! only has about twice the market share of searches that Microsoft’s engines have.
So if you are using Yahoo! as your default search engine take a look at http://www.bing.com/. If you are using Google, have a look by all means, but don’t expect to be blown away.