If you’re just backing up to an external hard drive and leaving that hard drive near your computer, your files aren’t completely safe. Yes, that backup protects you if your computer dies, or if your external hard drive dies. It’s definitely better to use two separate hardware devices than just one.
But those backups won’t prevent you if your home or office catches fire, floods, or is damaged in another disaster. Or, perhaps someone breaks in and steals or damages your hardware — computer, external drive, and all. This is also why it’s a bad idea to just carry an external backup drive around in your laptop bag — if your laptop bag is stolen or lost, there goes your computer with your files and its backups.
Whether you’re backing up to an external hard drive, putting copies of your important files in USB flash drives, burning them to discs, or even backing up to a file server located in your home or office, there’s still a single point of failure. Any damage or theft that occurs at your home or office could destroy all copies of your important files.
Offsite Backups work using the Internet to transfer data to our offsite backup server. Data is sent encrypted so it is secure and our servers are managed locally. Our system allows full disaster recovery options which means that a new server can be purchased and restored back, installed, up and running within days.