I’ve had my first call from a friend of mine who unfortunately is a victim of the recent flooding. When he started off the conversation by explaining how he knew that computers definitely did not float, I knew that things were not good.
I then asked the key question, “Do you have your backups?” and luckily he had kept his backup tapes stored off site and only lost one days data. However when I started to go through what he needed to do to get himself back up and running, I realised it wouldn’t be straight forward.
His backup tape drive and software were over four years old and the software CD was also damaged in the flood. So after much researching on the Internet and several phone calls we established that the new software would restore the old backup, but it was going to take a couple of days to get hold of a new tape drive. So we still have yet to see how good his backups are as he has never tried a test restore since he installed the tape drive.
If ever there was a case for Online Backups then this is it. If he had been backing up his data online, then the only thing he would have had to do would be to get hold of a suitable server, connect it to the Internet at any location, download the backup software and restore his programs and data. No messing with tape drives and tapes of unknown quality.
Needless to say I am actively trying to persuade him that one of our online backup solutions would make all our lives a lot easier.
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