Large enterprises live and die by their back-up while small businesses live or die by what they can recover after they realize they should have been backed up!

I, myself, have had my non-back-up woes…and boy did I feel like a fool when a desktop hard drive broke. Yes the disc that you hear spinning and has the data written on it literally broke into pieces. Apparently that does not normally happen. I found out data failures can be software related or hardware related. The code breaks or the devise breaks. What happened next is for another blog post.

Paul Stamatiou wrote a great blog post and review about Amazon’s S3 storage “in the cloud”.  At CopiaTECH we recommend backing up 100%, but there are many roads that lead to Rome. I often have customers ask about options that are different from whatever they are using. Personally I think something like Amazon’s S3 is the best for small businesses and I have looked around for several, but not tried any…until now. After reading Paul’s blog I am going to do a couple of tests on Amazon’s S3 storage service: PC & Server. I will report back later and give my own personal notes on the findings and how it compares to other back-ups I have used, etc.

If you have any specific back-up questions you want me to explore in my testing and review leave them in the comments and I will be sure and get to them.