Web Site Security: Back Up Your Web Site to Protect Customer Data

In addition to considering software products that run backups, online merchants must consider what type of media they want their backups stored on. Choices include secondary hard drives in the same computer or server that’s running the site, tape drives, separate network storage devices, and CDs or DVDs. CDs and DVDs make for great portable backups, but are limited to relatively small file sizes (roughly 700MB and 4.8GB, respectively). Network storage devices can be very expensive, but can back up enormous amounts of data. Tape drives offer perhaps the best balance of cost, storage capacity, portability, security and quality. Backups done to a secondary hard drive are the easiest on the budget and the fastest in terms of restore time, but are vulnerable to corruption in a situation where the disaster is caused by a hacker.