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Backing up your data |
  
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Backing up your data |
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Don't think of backing up your data as a waste of time or money. It's like taking out good insurance - it's there for you should you need it.
These simple facts show just how important a reliable back up of your data is:
| • | 31% of PC users have lost all of their files due to events beyond their control. |
| • | 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures. |
| • | 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster. |
| • | Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States. (Mozy Online Backup) |
| • | Simple drive recovery can cost upwards of $7,500 and success is not guaranteed. |
However, if you have a good backup strategy in place, there’s no need to panic – you’ll have a copy of your files and folders saved to a separate drive or perhaps online. From here, you can retrieve your files easily.
A truly failsafe system shouldn’t rely on storage you keep in your office; backups to a hard disk could be stolen or damaged in a fire. The ideal solution involves something stored remotely – for example an online backup system or a set of removable hard drives.
Each system has advantages and disadvantages and a quick look on the internet will allow you to decide what is best for your business.
As the NexusDB database engine is likely to be in use 24x7, we needed a simple way to backup your files, whilst keeping data integrety. This is done by a snapshot transaction that is instigated by the NexusDB Backup controller. We have written and supplied a simple script that will backup your data to another hard disk location, simply configure the nxcommand application to run from Windows task manager and the backup process will be automatic. Of course this only creates a local copy of the live database ready for you to backup offsite using your preferred solution.