Surviving a disaster and maintaining business continuity are the bane of every IT admin’s existence. When it comes to backups, you can go one of two ways.
- On-premise Backup.
- Offsite Backup.
My choice and recommendation is always On-premise backup over offsite and here is why:
- An offsite backup consumes greater bandwidth and takes up more time to complete a job than On-premise backups.
- In case of a network issue, an offsite backup job will get affected and lead to delays whereas On-premise backups don’t have to deal with such problems.
- Quick restores are possible in On-premise backups which ensures a greater degree of business continuity.
- Chances of security compromises are high on offsite backups unless a military grade security algorithm is used for data transfer.
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Coming up in our next post – The advantages of cloud backup/replication over offsite backup/replication.
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