Online Backup Storage On April Fool’s Day And Others

By Author: Belinda Darling
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April Fool’s Day was immediately preceded by World Backup Day in 2012. That’s right, after Mother’s Day came Fathers Day, and now we have World Backup Day. Its timing, the day before April Fool’s Day, could not be more significant. The message is loud and clear, if you don’t back up you’re a fool, and not just during April either.

Our modern day lives are increasingly more complicated, and all of this complication is detailed in important documents. It’s ironic that in the digital age, paper based contacts, certificates, schedules and reports are the mainstay of our lives. Without the paper based original, our lives can often grind to a halt. Should it be necessary to deal with the aftermath of a catastrophe, perhaps a house fire or perhaps a flood, the extent to which documents of this nature are important will become obvious?

In our crowded lives, today, the more information that can be made secure, the better. Online backup storage is the latest way of securing information. Any information that you currently have on computer, tablet or Smartphone, can be backed up using the ...
... latest security solutions.Cloud back up allows you to store all of your important personal data on the internet. This ensures you can access your data from any device you would normally connect to the internet with, wherever the device is.It is also easy to use Cloud services, as online document storage is known, to backup copies of important paper based contacts, certificates, schedules and reports. Simply have them digitised(many photocopiers and home printers will do this for you), and they can be stored on your computer and become part of your online backup storage.

Online document storage solutions all come with very advanced security systems. These systems guarantee that your data is kept secure. Most data centres are remote in out-of-the-way places and all have tight security controls to stop unauthorised people getting access to the file servers. Palm and retina scans are often used to ensure only authorised people access the data centres. Online access is also controlled using software techniques which are as good as, and in some casesfar better than, military security. Information is only stored in a scrambled format and the key to unscrambling it the password chosen. This password scrambles, or encrypts, the data that in a way is unique to the password. Without the password, it is impossible to read the data.

Recent studies have shown that the hard drives most often used to take backups of personal data can often fail, up to 10% within the first two years according to a study by Google. Online backup storage never experiences this problem because the technology used shuts faulty drives down before they fail and lose data. Hard drives of this nature are often stored at home which increases their vulnerability. They are not fire or flood proof and should you suffer either event your valuable personal data will be permanently lost.

Know Your Home offers the industry leaders in online backup storage and solutions. They offer families and individuals the best and most easy to use online document storage service available in Australia providing daily back up to a secure facility that is offsite.