E-mail Backup Options for SMBs

On-premise e-mail servers can fail, data can become corrupted, power can go out for hours or days, offices burn down and natural or man-made disasters can strike. Small Business Computing discusses disaster recovery and business continuity solutions available specifically for e-mail — simple inexpensive ones for very small businesses and somewhat pricier solutions for bigger, more complex operations.

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"Some companies use on-premise appliances — backup servers running e-mail software — that replicate everything on the main mail server, including contacts, calendars and tasks for all employees. They can restore service and data instantly if something happens to the main server.

"Other solutions, such as MessageOne from PC maker Dell and MessageLabs from security software firm Symantec — which Roythornes uses — do much the same thing. But they're subscription services that use cloud computing.

"That means your data back up is stored at the service provider’s secure facility. Data on your main mail server is continuously replicated to the remote server over your high-speed Internet connection, usually after it’s encrypted for security."

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