Pop Quiz: If your server suddenly crashed and ALL your data was erased, how long would it take before your business was back up and running as usual?
 
If you don’t confidently know the answer to this question, then I urge you to say “Yes” to our FREE Disaster Recovery Audit.

Have you ever lost an hour of work or a document because your computer crashed in the middle of you working on something? Remember how frustrating that was?
 
     Now imagine losing FAR more data than that. Imaging losing…
 
…All your accounting documentation and history…

…Your client records, history and database…
 
…Lost all the work files you’ve spent YEARS developing…
 
Can you even put a price tag on it? Probably not – yet so many business owners aren’t 100% certain that they could be back up and running after a disaster and are purely hoping that their current tape drive or backup is working and storing a usable copy of their data.

 The 3 Biggest Misunderstandings Businesses Have About Their Backup Systems
 That Give Them A False Sense Of Security:
 
Misunderstanding #1: Tape Backups Are A Reliable Way To Secure Your Data. Wrong! Tape backups have an average failure rate of 100% (no, that’s not a typo). What makes this even worse is that tape backups will APPEAR to be working, giving you a false sense of security, and you’ll only discover you’ve lost it all when you try to recover data after a disaster.
 
Misunderstanding #2: Thinking That Backing Up Your Data Will Allow You To Quickly Restore Your Network To Its Original State, Quickly And Easily. This is a MAJOR misconception!
 
     Having a copy of your data doesn’t guarantee this at all – something many business owners don’t realize until they are faced with restoring the data. To help you understand, let me give you a simple analogy…
 
     Let’s suppose we made an exact replica of all the items in your house right now and put them offsite in a storage facility – that’s a backup of your “data.” If your house burned to the ground (God forbid!) we would have to rebuild the HOUSE (which is the server, software and supporting environment) BEFORE we could restore all your items back from the storage facility. Obviously that takes some time.
 
     That’s why simply having an offsite copy of your data doesn’t guarantee you’ll be back up and running FAST. It could take several days – possibly weeks – before everything was restored; and that’s assuming you HAVE the data in a clean state and all the originally installed software disks.
 
Misunderstanding #3: Trusting Their Backup Is Automatically Working Without Doing Periodic Test Restores. I see this happening a LOT – a business owner thinks their backups are working because they don’t see any error messages or apparent problems. Then, when they need to restore a file, they discover the backups stopped working MONTHS ago and all that data is gone.
 
     Reality is that you need someone monitoring and periodically conducting test restores or “fire drills” on a regular basis to make absolutely certain everything is working just fine.

Want To Know For Sure If Your Data Is Safe?
Our FREE Disaster Recovery Audit Will Reveal the Truth…

   Since you are a prospective new client, I’d like to extend a “get to know us” offer of a FREE Disaster Recovery Audit – a $395.00 value.   I don’t normally give away free services, because if I did, I’d go out of business. But since your company may meet our strict selection criteria, I thought this would be a great way to introduce our services to a few new clients.
 
   At no charge, a security specialist will come on site and…

·        Audit your current data backup and security procedures, including tape rotation and maintenance schedule to see if ALL of your data really is being backed up in a secure way, and in a format that can easily be restored.

·        Audit your current offsite backup system and provider to see if they can guarantee you a fast, safe recovery of your data – there are actually 5 key characteristics and systems to demand from any offsite backup company; if they don’t meet every one, you’re in for a big, unpleasant surprise if you ever have to do a major restore and rebuild of your server and network.

·        Review your current procedures for onsite backups. Many people don’t realize they damage their disks (and thereby corrupt their data) by improperly caring for their storage devices.
 
·        Check your network backups to make sure they are accurately backing up all of the critical files and information you would NEVER want to lose.
 
·        Present a simple and easy to understand chart that will detail the makeup of your data, including the age and type of files you are backing up. Why should you care? Because many companies inadvertently use valuable computer storage to back up their employees’ personal MP3 files and movies.
 
·        Discuss current data protection needs and explain in plain English where your risks are. We know everyone has a different level of risk tolerance, and we want to make sure all the risks you’re taking with your data are by choice not because of miscommunication or accident.
 
Depending on what we discover, we’ll either give you a clean bill of health or reveal gaps in your data backup that could prove disastrous. Either way, you have nothing to lose except the uncertainty about whether or not you could quickly recover from a major data disaster.
 
If it’s appropriate, we’ll provide you with an action plan for further securing your data with our Total BDR. I don’t expect everyone to become a client, but I do expect a small percentage to hire us to protect their most valuable asset, corporate data, and possibly even become a loyal client.

You Are Under No Obligation To Do Or Buy Anything
When You Say “Yes” To A Free Disaster Recovery Audit

We also want to be very clear that there are no expectations on our part for you to do or buy anything when you take us up on our offer. As a matter of fact, I will give you my personal guarantee that you won’t have to deal with a pushy, arrogant salesperson because I don’t appreciate heavy sales pressure any more than you do.

If nothing else, you will be able to know for certain just how good your current backup system is.