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What Is A Backup & Recovery Service?

Reliance on IT systems has increased but an efficient backup and recovery system has become one of the most important parts of all businesses. What would happen if all your data disappeared, could your business continue? At minimum, most businesses need some sort of backup of their data to an external hard drive or another device but an off-site backup is just as important.

Another part which is also the most important element is the ability to restore data. Sometimes, backups are working, but the data is corrupt! Therefore, thorough IT planning is critical, this involves having both a reliable data backup process in place, as well as a disaster recovery solution.

At HSM IT Solutions, we offer both onsite and offsite backup solutions to safeguard your critical business data and minimise the possibility of data loss. We provide a variety of backup solutions depending on the needs of your business, whether it be to local storage or to the cloud.

What Causes Data Loss?

Unfortunately, data loss is a relatively common occurrence. In fact, for most computer users it’s almost inevitable that they will eventually experience some form of data loss incident that results in lost or corrupted computer files. The following are Top 5 Causes of Data Loss:

Hardware or System Malfunctions
Human Errors
Software Corruption
Computer Viruses and Malware
Natural Disasters

To avoid data loss

An effective backup and recovery plan is required.

If work is worth producing, it’s worth backing up.

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What is required for a backup solution?

Backup media: This can be an external hard drive, a NAS device or a secure storage on the cloud.
Backup software: This will allow your backup to be scheduled and managed.
Thorough IT planning: This involves having both a reliable data backup process in place as well as a disaster recovery solution.
Continuous monitoring: Ensure the backup is running and healthy.

What options are there?

HSM IT Solutions work closely with you to understand your IT environment, business driver, current capabilities, limitations and budget to provide recommendations on which options would best suit you:

Local backup
Backup to cloud
Backup to third party location
Backup with a business continuity plan

We Do Backup & Recovery Right

Understand your current situation

HSM IT Solutions work closely with you to understand your IT environment, business driver, current capabilities, limitations and budget to provide advise on which options would best suit you.

Test your backup speed

We will test your backup to ensure it completes within an acceptable time frame. Backups running during the day will affect the networks performance and staff productivity.

Periodic recovery test

Ability to restore data is the most important element in a backup system. Sometimes backups are working, but the data is corrupt! If data can not be restored, the backup will become useless.

Analyse your data structure

Not all servers require a backup solution. We take time to analyse you systems and design a backup strategy to ensure it meets your business needs.

Clean and archive data

Large amounts of data will cause backups to take longer and requires more backup storage. We can clean and archive your old data to help backups run more efficiently.

Business continuity plan

Keeping your business up and running is important, no matter what happens. We design your recovery plan based on your business driver, current capabilities and budget.

What Our Clients Say

“Thank you for keeping our team happy as we go through such a rapid growth phase in our not for profit organisations. Thank you for helping reduce our ongoing running cost. You are always polite and very competent. Staffs are quick to help when needed but even more importantly, they keep the whole system in great shape through your ongoing good advice and care. Well done HSM!” Read More

JorgeCharity Organization (Australia & NZ)

“We are a strata management company with just over 20 staff members. After having used 5 different IT companies over the past 20 years, we were approached by Michael from HSM IT to look after our IT requirements. HSM IT has been by far the best we have ever dealt with. They respond quickly to our concerns and are proactive in ensuring our systems run smoothly and without interruption. We recently changed office locations. Their entire team made the whole process easy with no down time in our network. It is a pleasure to work with them.” Read More

FranckStrata Management Company

“We have always outsourced our IT area to third party companies to manage. However, it is not until we made the move to HSM IT that we felt the confidence of being able to rely on a company to manage all aspects of our IT needs. HSM IT ultimately saved us a lot of time to focus on our core competency which is food retail. HSM IT worked closely with our management and operational team to truly evaluate our hardware and software needs. They are a company with the expertise and experience that any company can rely on.” Read More

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