World Backup Day – 31st March

World Backup Day

March 31st is World Backup Day!  World Backup Day is a day for people to learn about the increasing role of data in our lives and the importance of regular backups.

Customers are growing ever more concerned with security and availability within their hosting environments but many overlook the importance of a proper regular backup schedule. We are increasingly find that we are migrating many customers without a backup strategy in place onto our servers with many assuming their existing provider is already taking backups. (If they don’t mention they are taking backups then the probably aren’t!)

A good backup strategy for your server will involve at a minimum storing backups on a different storage device to where your main data is held, ideally on a different server offsite and with multiple backups being stored depending on the use of your server.

UK Servers offers customers two choices of backups, CDP or FT Based all of which are stored at a different geographical location to your main hosting environment a minimum of 100 miles away:

– Our continuous data protection (CDP) is a high performance disk-to-disk backup service enabling Linux and Windows disaster recovery and bare metal restores. We are able to take a snapshot of your hard drive, and in the event of a hard drive failure or user error, provide a full restore of the disks within a short timeframe. You can configure the frequency at which you backup your data (hourly, daily, weekly etc) using the web interface and then rest easy knowing your data is available in the event of any drive failure or accidental deletion. The CDP backup system also allows for restore of a single file, folder or database through the web interface system.

– Our File Transfer (FT) based backup system is a remote storage space accessible via the following protocols: FTP, RSYNC, SFTP and NFS. We can configure and monitor the backup of specific files or folders as requested. Backups can be taken nightly, weekly and monthly and stored as required.

World Backup Day is an independent initiative to raise awareness about backups and data preservation.  To help publicise World Backup Day UK Servers is giving all new and existing customers 50% off all UK Servers backup services from 30th March – 4th April. Simply quote promo code: BACKUP50 on our order form to take advantage of this.  More information can be found at: http://www.worldbackupday.com/