Backing up your data
Just to give a sense of scale: think how much data you have gathered on your home computer over the years — and separately, how much the material on your business machine or your company's server actually matters. All of it sits in one place: the hard disk. Thousands of documents, photographs, presentations, music files and videos, every one of them valuable, all kept in a single location that is stable and safe — apparently. And what if we told you that the same disk could one day fail and stop working altogether? It is worth securing an anchor for yourself, a kind of insurance that keeps watch over your data day and night. It is time to arrange a backup, with the help of Oz-Tal's support specialists. To many people, backup sounds like something complicated, reserved for large offices and corporations handling weighty matters. That is a mistake — those are simply one example of computer users who need a serious backup. Another kind of user, no less important, is someone you know very well: you. Just as you carefully protect your tangible assets — the house, the car, the good furniture — you should protect the virtual ones as well: the photographs on your camera's memory card, the important documents on your portable drive, the videos and contacts on your phone, everything in your mailbox and the whole spread of files on your computer today. You worked hard to accumulate all of it. Is it really worth risking losing the lot? Clearly not. You have to take a backup.
The backup options available to you today:
- A burned CD — one-off
- A portable hard disk — large capacity at a low price
- Backup to another computer on the network
- Backup to a NAS, a network-attached hard disk
- A USB stick
- A cloud backup service (internet-based backup)
Our support specialists will help you build the backup arrangement that best fits the way you use your computer and the kind of data it holds. With our help you can choose the type of backup that suits you and then learn how to run it properly.
We can promise that by the end you will have accessible, convenient backup in place, where you can keep whatever data you like and restore any file you want at any time.
Frequently asked questions
How will you know how to fit the backup to my needs?
The work starts with a remote connection to your machine and a quick survey of it. Together with you, while connected, we identify the folders that genuinely need backing up.
Does the service cover all kinds of computers?
Our backup service suits machines running Microsoft operating systems, on hardware from any manufacturer.
How do I set up the right backup for me?
Setting it up is done with our people alongside you the whole way — specialists in both cloud and local backup.
How will I track and reach the backup later on?
Our team helps prepare a specification document covering what is being backed up, how to reach the cloud copy and pull material down in the event of a loss, and the credentials for the cloud service — along with a daily email recording what has been backed up.