On-line Backup Services

What is On-line Backup?

Electronic vaulting or on-line backup is a secure, reliable, disciplined method by which a company’s mission critical data is backed up via the Internet or dedicated transmission line to a remote server in a highly secure regional data center.

Utilizing industry-leading software, Midwest Records Storage, Inc.’s service recognizes and captures changes to files since the last backup session, strips out only the changes from the files (at the block level), encrypts the data for enhanced security, and compresses it to minimize transmission time. The encrypted data is then sent over the Internet or private telecommunication lines to a highly secure offsite regional data center. Customers schedule automated, unattended backup sessions according to their own needs.

You push the data to us so we do not see it nor can we manipulate it in any way. You have the only software key. It is secure since you can choose encryption prior to pushing the data to our vault. It is compressed prior to sending the data. You get an e-mail daily telling you your files were successfully backed up and the listing of your files.   Retrievals can be accomplished online, real-time from the customer’s place of business or remotely.

Your invoice is based on the amount of data in terms of gigabytes, at the end of the month. There is no maximum number of gigabytes you are allowed to store. You can control the cost by not backing up your operating system or application shell and by backing up only your mission critical files and controlling your own retention schedule.