If you’re considering offsite backup for the safe storage and protection of your customer and company information, you’ve started thinking in the right direction. The need to have a second copy of your information stored securely or another location to store your information is very important to any small business. You may not be at the stage where your business needs a large amount of storage or a backup that can be provided, such as that provided by an external backup service (those who use tape for large amounts of data), good for now anyway. There may be a day in the future when you do, but what can you think about in the meantime? Let’s look at some options for when you have smaller amounts of data. When it grows, you’ll have to switch to the big guns of tape data storage. If your business is online, you can expect exponential growth in the data needed to secure, you might as well get into the habit early.

• Online data storage. There are several ways to start storing or backing up your information using online data transfer. Remember that you will need to use some software and start paying for online space for any credible storage. Just think, using Google Docs to store information, is the simplest way to do it. A paid service is something like iDisk. You pay a monthly premium for disk space online. This is typically used for people to store their information instead of having a drive at home.
• managed server. Managed servers are a way to store your business information in another location. These again will cost you a monthly fee and often give you a number of features and mean that much of your information, not just your backups, is stored in another location. Again, you are using the Internet to transfer your data. This is a more detailed service, offering you software, secure storage, and the like.
• Setting up your own drive somewhere. Some of those people who are a little more technically inclined are interested in setting up their own drive somewhere. The data transfer is still online and you need to configure the drive to be online somewhere. The common way is to install a bunch of hard drives hidden in the wall of a building or in your house that you own. In this way, there is real physical protection in addition to the normal security functions. You’ll need to think about a variety of other issues, like being able to always keep it online, even when there’s a blackout.

It’s important to understand what offsite data storage companies offer. Serious protection in super high security protection and physical transit of information in secure vehicles: maximum information security. The other options explained here do not offer anything like the protection, security, control, and transfer of your information as professional services do. Please note that everything explained above is only possible with the transfer of information online, and for complete and complete security, that is not an option. With highly crucial and confidential information, especially when you have large amounts, they are the only option.