Internet Backup Services

Internet backup services were the last thing on the franchise owner's mind on the day before the most powerful electrical storm in recent memory hit the small city in Texas. Lighting slashed across the sky like dueling fencers and while there were a couple of small tornados that caused some minor damage, the talk in the days to come was the almost nuclear kind of energy and destruction that the lightning brought to the town. Cell phones, landlines, cable, television satellite dishes, power stations and anything related to technology and communication were affected. Across the city, any broadcast device or computer that had not been unplugged from the wall before the lightning hit seemed to be fried. The owner's home computer was Texas toast and after the storm ended at three thirty in the morning, the owner of a popular learning center got in the car and drove quickly to the business to see if anything had been damaged. Upon arrival, there appeared to be no damage to the three hundred and fifty thousand dollar investment. But on opening the door, the smell of ozone filled his nostrils and it was quickly evident that an electrical meltdown had occurred.

Just days before the storm had hit, a pop up ad had hit the owner's screen, inviting the viewer to find out more about secure Internet data backup. With a swift click of the mouse, the man had blown up the ad, dismissing it he hoped, forever. In the owner's computers were proprietary software given to the franchisees of each center. This software was the heart and soul of keeping track of the progress of each student, as well as all appointments with parents, academic and personal information of each student and most importantly, the financial records of over one hundred students that brought in over a million dollars of revenue each year. The owner had really never dreamed that the business would do so well so soon, but it had enabled the man to begin saving a lot of money for his children's college educations. He began to panic in the early morning darkness of that fateful night, because while the software could easily be obtained again from the corporate headquarters, the information on each student, and especially money owed the center each month was gone forever and so was the opportunity to install a secure Internet data backup plan before it was needed. "Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." (Mark8:38)

With most every business today riding on the presumption that there is really no way to operate without a computer network, LAN, WAN or both, it is surprising that Internet backup services are not more widely used. A most telling statistic is that on average, one in ten computers experience hard drive crashes each year, resulting in the dreaded "fatal error" message. Some computer geniuses are able to retrieve much of the data from such a disaster, but it might be the ten percent of irretrievable data that brings about grief. There are virus attacks that can creep like slithering snakes into programs and files, corrupting them and rendering them useless, or even worse, vulnerable to a hacker's whim. Theft of a sale person's laptop in an airport terminal or perhaps stealing information sent over a wireless network can bring about untold damage to a businesses' reputation and the inability to reproduce the data on that stolen laptop or snatched from a wireless router may bring financial ruin to any business. And of course, the natural disaster, where a tornado or flood or hurricane or fire can completely destroy the computer physically, rendering even a retrieval genius impotent to bring back important data.

Secure Internet data backup services take the responsibility of keeping clients' information very safe. Just as some scientists who are eager to save the seeds from the earth's most important food crops from disease and blight have stored thousands of backup seeds in a secret far northern Arctic cave, many Internet back up services have very secure physical locations, usually underground and away from possible flood damage and often in undisclosed locations. The cost of using Internet backup services is rather minimal for a business. Some of these services only charge ninety dollars for unlimited storage for two years. Others charge four dollars a month and fifty cents for every gigabyte of information secured. Downloading one of these secure Internet data backup services is relatively painless and is oftentimes almost invisible to the user. Some of the services do not allow for file sharing while others provide both storage backup and file sharing.

In addition, Internet back up services varies in how each one actually saves a company's or individuals files. Some companies save the information in a differential manner. This means that the information is saved just as it is written or composed on the monitor screen. Other services save the information incrementally. This means that the information is saved as changes are made to the documents or files. There used to be an old television ad touting car oil filters and its slogan was something like, pay now for a new filter or pay later when the engine seizes up. Perhaps the people that thought up that commercial came up with the idea of Internet backup services.

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