Question

For years, the network administrator at your company performed off-site backups by putting a set of tapes in his home safe every weekend. Now that he's retired, his replacement is evaluating cloud backups instead. What drawbacks is this likely this have

Answer 1

Answer:

The disadvantages of cloud back-ups are:

• It is relatively more expensive
• Its' efficiency depends totally on the speed of the internet service provider. If the provider of the service has slow bandwidth and the internet is slow, then it may take a very long time to retrieve the backups.
• Where there is no internet access at all, it becomes impossible to get the back-ups.

Explanation:

When companies opt to save a copy of their data on a location other than their physical location such as a remote server, it is referred to as Cloud-Backup. On-site back-ups on the other hand entail saving company data on a physical apparatus such as disks, drives, etc.

Data back-up is essential to maintain business continuity. If a business such as a telecommunications company lost all of its data including those of its customers, it most likely will go belly-up.

Another reason why people opt for Cloud-backup is that it saves the offers increased security and ease of maintenance.

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