Accidentally deleting files, crashing your computer or having your laptop stolen on a business trip are the ultimate nightmares that can make any member of a small business team wake up at night in a cold sweat. The potential for loosing data saved on your computers is significant. In an attempt to safeguard important information, many employees spend a significant amount of time backing up files by transferring them to a secondary source, be it a zip drive or a stack of floppy disks.
Most large corporations resort to storing files on a secondary or tertiary server.
Or the resources available to maintain a network and religiously backup files on tape. There are numerous companies that offer back-up services via the Internet. Most offer free downloadable software to facilitate the scheduling, encryption, transmission and retrieval of files to and from the second party server. Pricing and backup scheduling depends upon the service. The software performs automatically scheduled backups, as often as the client wants, without the user having to remember to send the data on a regular basis.