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Is it Right for Me?

If you have a computer and you use it, then chances are you need a backup. But, how can DataShield101 benefit you? Let's read about common user and business experiences.

COMPLEX EXCEL FILE RESTORE: A small business had been using a tape backup system for years. The backups always seemed to be working. The software even said that the backups were successful. Finally, one day they needed a heavily-laden formula excel file restored. So they began the restoration process. After searching through a stack of tapes and over six hours of time, they discovered that 3 of the most recent tapes could not restore the file. They had to restore the file over 5 months old. Then they spent more than two weeks trying to re-create the formulas.

DataShield101 can run daily or multiple times per day, automatically and/or manually. You can quickly find and restore file(s) and multiple versions of the same file if you wish. For example, let's say an excel file has been backed up for 30 days straight and changes were made to that file each of the 30 days. You can easily restore that excel file from every single day (or maybe just days 1, 4, 8, 9, 21, 27 and 29) or just the date that you know you need it from. You now have 30 versions of that file on your computer. Wow! Now, that's a restore. It's quick and easy. You decide: re-create all those formulas or restore it right now with DataShield101.

EMPLOYEE FORGOT TO BACKUP: In small businesses, everyone is typically very, very busy and when the primary backup person goes on vacation or calls in sick, his or her duties don't always get done. In another scenario, the primary person, Joe, in charge of swapping out tapes goes on vacation. The person who was supposed to backup in his place, forgets all week long because of too many other tasks to do. Plus, it is all too common in many businesses that the protection of data is simply not high on the priority list ... until it is missing. Well, Joe returns and the boss needs his address book from last week because an important business contact email address was inadvertently changed and the boss can't remember what it is supposed to be and there aren't any emails in his SENT ITEMS folder to get it from. Joe goes to restore the address book from last week and discovers that no backups occurred. Who would you rather be: the boss, the person who didn't do the backups or Joe or someone who had been using the automated scheduling of DataShield101?

DataShield101 automates the backup process. No tapes to swap. No worrying about someone going on vacation or calling in sick. Set the schedule and worry no more. In addition, any number of people can receive an automated email from DataShield101 informing them of the results of all backup jobs. And more still, there is an customizable automatic retry. By default, let's say your internet connection drops for any reason, DataShield101 will retry the backup job 12 times at 5 minute intervals. This can be changed to any retry and interval.

FULL BACKUP TAPE NOT ROTATED OFFSITE: The individual responsible for rotating backup tapes to offsite location didn't do it for whatever reason. That very weekend, a fire starts in a room where boxes and boxes of paper documents are stored which happens to be right next to the server room. After all is said and burned, the server are not only burned, but drowned as well. All the backups tapes that were sitting neatly on a shelf are melted. The entire server farm is destroyed. There are no backup tapes available. Welcome to your office come Monday morning.

DataShield101 resolves this real-life scenario too. Data is safely encrypted then quickly transmitted to a protected server which then replicates that same encrypted data to other locations automatically. If your location is destroyed, or one of our locations, your data is still available. Safe and sound. Always secure with powerful 448-bit encryption. Just waiting for you to click on the RESTORE button.

CAN'T FIND THE FILE? Many use CD's or other type of media to backup their files. Far too often, though, the use of this type of media and process creates a chaotic stack of unorganized files. And, even if you happen to be very good about documenting what is on each disk, you still have to spend the time doing it every time. Inevitably, we will either cease to be quite so organized because of its time requirements or we don't backup as often or we don't backup at all.

DataShield101 makes the process of file backup and restore an easy, time-efficient process. Files are always organized and always available. Files are easy to find, select (one or more different versions of the file if needed) and restore. Never a lost CD, never a scratched CD, never an endlesss swapping of media, including tapes, to find a file.