Some businesses need high levels of confidentiality for their documents. Things need to be shared with a few people, but in such a way that there’s a confidence that there haven’t been others taking a look at the process. Real estate, business brokerages, insurance, title insurance, laywers and paralegals all […]
Security
As a “tech support” company, one of the things we have striven for over the years is to be ahead of the problems that our clients face. If a server is down we want to know about it before they do so we can either have it back up and […]
Monitoring Systems, Networks and Services with Zabbix
We’ve been talking about backups for a few posts now. It’s a critically important topic whether we’re talking about business or personal files. Data loss really stinks and can be very costly.Backups are the antidote for that. That much said, sometimes people think because they have a copy of their […]
Layered Backups
A backup for your business (or even personal) data is so essential. Hard drives and other storage media die. It’s just a matter of time. Usually it happens without warning. Files get deleted or overwritten accidentally. The bad scenarios for your data could go on and on. “I was cleaning […]
Time Machine Style Backups for Servers with Rsnapshot
Data Loss will happen. Hard drives fail, laptops get dropped, water drips through ceilings, fires happen… Yes bad things happen and at some point that hard drive you save all your business files on will fail. It might not be today or tomorrow and it may give you warning. But […]