One question business owners have when they begin thinking about online accounting solutionsis whether or not their data is backed up and secure. In the event of a power outage, natural disaster or server crash, what happens to their important business data?
What sort of data back-ups do you currently have in place to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster? In the data back-up world, experts often say, “One back-up is like no back-ups. Two back-ups is like one back-up. You need three back-ups to ensure your data is truly safe.”
When you choose online accounting solutions from AccountingDepartment.com, you’ll get hosting of all your financial data on our secure servers, and daily, nightly, monthly and annual back-ups of your data for access whenever you need it.
The Back-Up Process for Our Online Accounting Solutions
1. We take a virtual “snapshot” of our shared data servers every three hours. These files are held for five days and then deleted if not needed.
2. Every 24 hours, a different process is used to take a server snapshot. These are held for five weeks.
3. We back up the entire server farm to disc nightly.
4. Nightly disc back-ups taken the last week of the month are, additionally, backed up to tape and stored, off-site, in a fireproof vault. These are held for one year.
5. Monthly back-ups are then backed up to tape annually, stored off-site in a fireproof vault, and held for three years.
AccountingDepartment.com has been offering this important small business service for many years; it’s a critical part of our online accounting solutions. Because if you can’t access your important financial data in an emergency, what’s the point of having it at all?
