Discuss the pros and cons of using cloud-based backups.
Carbonite SaaS for File Backups
Businesses often rely on a process known as cloud-based colocation to duplicate their company resources at a remote site. If fire, theft, or some other disaster occurs, the business significantly reduces its risk of data loss.
Most user-based computer books tell users that they too should perform regular disk and file backup operations. However, because the process is generally too time consuming, most users fail to back up their files on a regular basis. Worse yet, users who do perform backups often store the copies within the same facility (home or office) as their computer. The backups are at risk to many of the same factors that threaten the original data.
To provide users and companies with a backup solution, many SaaS providers have emerged to back up user data files to redundant storage facilities that reside within the cloud, as shown in FIGURE 6-8.
The SaaS cloud-based backup systems provide reliable and secure storage. Users simply select the files or folders they want to back up and then schedule when and how often they want the backups to occur. The actual backup operations then happen behind the scenes automatically.
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