Most businesses have set up a tape backup to protect their data from disaster, but few businesses know this:The average failure rate for a tape backup is 100%

ALL tape backups fail at some point in time.

Most people don’t realize that ALL tape drives fail. But what’s really dangerous is that most companies don’t realize it happened until it’s too late.

That’s why history is riddled with stories of companies losing millions of dollars worth of data. In almost every case, these businesses had some type of backup system in place, but were sickened to find out it wasn’t working when they needed it most.
 
While you should maintain a local backup of your data, a tape backup will NOT offer you protection!

Your tape drive malfunctions rendering it useless and making it impossible to restore your data.

IMPORTANT: It is very common for a tape drive to malfunction without giving any warning signs.

Your office (and everything in it) gets destroyed by a fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, or other natural disaster.

The physical tapes you are backing your data up to become corrupted due to heat or mishandling.
 
AGILE Networking Solutions online backup service called BackupGuardPro is powered by the award winning eFolder.

Leveraging the power provided by eFolder, BackupGaurdPro provides the following benefits:
 

• Extreme Reliability: The fact is, computers are unreliable. This service was built expecting things to fail and to do everything possible to automatically recover.

• Superior Data Integrity: We not only provide information confidentiality (through encryption), we also provide integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation.

• Reverse Block-level Deltas: Provides superior data integrity (the integrity of the entire current version is verified every time a file is changed) and superior efficiency for data retention (use of 2kb blocks provides up to 40% space savings over solutions with larger block sizes).

• Unified Local and Remote Backups: Perform encrypted local backups to external hard drives or aggregate local backups to any NAS or SAN with just a couple of extra clicks. You can backup a lot more data locally than you do remotely if you choose to do so. BackupGuardPro can even be used solely for local-only backups if the customer is not ready for remote backups. Local backups enjoy all features of remote backups, including reverse block-level deltas, unlimited historical versioning.

• Email Archiving and Mailbox Storage Management: Control overflowing inboxes, meet legal compliance requirements, optimize Exchange server performance, and provide one-click message restores for users within Outlook for all of their email. Our technology allows you to take old or large content out of Exchange and into the archive, de-dup it, and provide single-click access to archived content. All emails, contacts, appointments, etc., are readily available for searching or restoring (at the message level) in the case of accidental deletion or corruption.

 
In addition we have the features expected of a 1st class online (and local) backup service.

• Flexible data retention policies. Visualization of backup policies. Lower price for archival data that doesn’t change.

• Open file backups and support for server applications, such as Exchange and SQL Server.

• Email notifications at the end of backups, including disk usage graphs. Notifications when a backup has no happened for a period of time or when disk usage changes too rapidly or is over a certain amount.

• Reports and tools to help understand how the disk usage in the account is being used and what could be changed to reduce disk usage.

• Web-based monitoring of the status of backups.

• Access to backed up data from the web