Why We Should Backup Our Data?

Backing up your data is considered as important to many people but not many really do it. Either they forgot or it is too troublesome for some. Backing up data especially manual backup requires high discipline. Imagine that you do this every day or every week. Some will do it in the beginning but in the end they will just give up. Especially when nothing ever happened. However once you experienced hard drive corruption resulting in data loss and you didn’t do any data backup, you will curse yourself like crazy, regret like hell and starts hitting your head on the keyboard.

Back up your files or else you’ll be like this...

Data loss can happen in many ways. One of the most common causes is physical failure of the media where the data is stored on, for example your server’s hard drives. Normally, hard drives could live for years without any problems but eventually they will fail. Especially hard drives that run 24 hours a day such as in web hosting environment.

Whether you have your server hard drive in RAID 1 or RAID 5, there will still be a chance of data corruption. The safest way is still to backup the data outside the server. We have experienced few incidents whereby our customers have 2 hard drives mirrored and expected that if one drive failed they still have the other. However what they failed to realise is that what if the hard drive didnt failed mechanically. What if the first drive is infected with a virus or suffered data corruption? In a RAID 1 environment everything in Hard Drive 1 will be replicated into Hard Drive 2 including bad data or data corruption. This means bye-bye to your real data.

At Shinjiru Web Hosting, we offer our customer a solution to avoid data loss. We provide Managed Back Up Services for all our customers. The managed back up services are performed either daily or weekly basis and data is stored in a secure offsite location. Shinjiru personnel will personally perform the back up operations into SAN storage, tape or CD for you. Now you can’t come up with excuses like no time to backup, backing up manually is troublesome or you forgotten to backup.

Free yourself from the worry of data loss by subscribing to your Backup Services. Don’t you think your data is worth each and every penny spent for backup ?

Do remember that your data is the most important thing in your server and backup is a necessity. Backing up your data is something you cannot afford not to do. So please do backup your data.

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