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Online Backup Helps Recent Flood Victims

The recent floods in South Yorkshire and Gloucestershire have been unprecedented in scale.  Over 10,000 companies were affected and some reports state that over 3000 businesses within the effected areas have suffered total data loss.

PerfectBackup, one of the premier online backup providers in the United Kingdom have nearly 600 clients within the affected flood areas have stated that all clients received their mission critical data within an average 10 hours of request.  This means that PerfectBackup despatched 486 hard drives, DVD's or CD's totalling over 9 terabytes of data to businesses and as a result they were functional within around 48 hours.

Peter Meyer of PerfectBackup quoted " I feel more than satisfied we helped our clients in the UK to quickly recover data and they were able to trade as soon as they had found a temporary location and hardware to continue business, but my heart goes out to the businesses who have suffered total data loss.  I have seen it so many times, a promising small to medium sized business who lose data and a trading location through no fault of their own are as a result left in a no win position. Obviously their position in the near future will be compromised.

Whilst data loss was huge during the floods and many businesses lost their data lessons must be learnt, for all of us the cause of data loss is just around the corner, so every business must backup their data, regardless of what backup solution is deemed to be most suitable the task must be carried out every day.

An online backup solution will automatically backup business data to a secure offsite location, so regardless which disaster may occur, your data will always be available for restore.

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