Whats Your Backup Plan for Customer Data
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
What’s Your Backup Plan for Customer Data?
Is it possible for you to wake up and find that your entire customer base is completely gone? Speaking in terms of your customer database, the possibility is very real and also true for employee records, payment history, electronic documents, etc. While just about everyone has experienced the sinking feeling of realizing that an important file has been lost for good, most people and businesses still aren’t backing up their primary data even though direct attached storage, network attached storage and tape is affordable and simple to implement.
What is Direct Attached Storage?
Direct access storage is considered a simple type of storage to implement and is perfect for businesses that use one or two servers to share information locally. If you’re running a network your server is most likely the prime storage area for all of the computers on the network or possibly you have a small RAID attached. Direct Attached Storage (DAS) is a storage unit that is directly connected to the server, but not accessible by the other computers on the network without express permissions.
Depending on the type of direct attached storage drive you choose, the backup can be set up to occur automatically on a periodic basis. In the event of a hard drive crash, all of your data is still in tact on the direct access storage drive and easily accessible.
Cost of Direct Attached Storage:
The potential cost of loss associated with not having some sort of data backup plan like direct attached storage is obvious