Online Backup Knowledge Base

EARLY LABOR DAY SALE – ENDING SOON!

Huge Savings off our most popular offerings! Read more…

“HOW HOT IS IT?” Read more…

OK there was this car, a blue mid-80s Volvo, covered boot to bonnet with plastic fish SINGING OPERA and dancing. They were individually animated, and vigorously conducted by a lobster formerly named Larry. Read more…

WOW!

It is H-O-T today in Memphis, TN. We’ve already been issued an Excessive Heat Advisory, but luckily our AC is trucking along just fine…

Weather reports are saying that we’ve hit a record high temperature of 102 degrees, tying the old record of 102 set in 1901 and 1947. And the day is not even over yet!

With a heat index of 120 degrees, we decided to bear the heat (for just a minute) and try a little experiment. Read more…

Rob Cosgrove, CEO Remote Backup Systems

 This five part series by Rob Cosgrove helps Managed Service Providers and Online Backup consultants design correct backup protocol for their customers.

This last article discusses Recovery Objectives. Other articles in the series talk about backup schedules and shows how to estimate backup times, setting backup strategies, optimizing backup time by identifying data that needs to be backed up online, selecting backup types, and explains how to define backup sets. Read more…

Elizabeth's Office Supply Dragon

I don’t know what to say about this, except that Elizabeth had way too much time on her hands and a key to the office supply closet.

Rob Cosgrove, CEO Remote Backup Systems

This five part series by Rob Cosgrove helps Managed Service Providers and Online Backup consultants design correct backup protocol for their customers.

This fourth article discusses backup schedules and shows how to estimate backup times. Other articles in the series cover setting backup strategies, optimizing backup time by identifying data that needs to be backed up online, selecting backup types, and explains how to define backup sets. Read more…

Rob Cosgrove, CEO Remote Backup Systems

This five part series by Rob Cosgrove helps Managed Service Providers and Online Backup consultants design correct backup protocol for their customers.

This third article suggests specific files and folders to include and exclude, and explains how to define backup sets. Other articles in the series cover setting backup strategies, optimizing backup time by identifying data that needs to be backed up online, selecting backup types, and defining schedules.  Read more…

Rob Cosgrove, CEO Remote Backup Systems

This five part series by Rob Cosgrove helps Managed Service Providers and Online Backup consultants design correct backup protocol for their customers.

This second article concentrates on setting backup strategies. Other series articles talk about optimizing backup time by identifying data that needs to be backed up online and excluding data that does not, selecting backup types, defining schedules, and separating files by type into different backup sets.  Read more…

Rob Cosgrove, CEO Remote Backup Systems

I got a little ahead of myself. After I wrote this series of articles it occurred to me that I didn’t write anything to explain it. So, here’s the Prequel.

As an Online Backup consultant, MSP, Service Provider, or whatever you call yourself, you are in the business of protecting your customers’ important data assets with your online backup service and your expertise.

Anyone can buy software and start an online backup service. That’s the easy part (as long as you pick the right software – hint: mine.)  However, in order to be really successful you have to set yourself apart from those who only have software. This includes all those cheap $5/month services. Read more…

Rob Cosgrove, CEO Remote Backup Systems

This five part series by Rob Cosgrove helps Managed Service Providers and Online Backup consultants design correct backup protocol for their customers.

This first article concentrates on optimizing backup time by identifying data that needs to be backed up online and excluding data that does not. This series also includes details on designing backup strategies, selecting backup types, defining schedules, and separating files by type into different backup sets. Read more…