Is your data safe?

What would happen if all of the information stored in your computer were suddenly lost? Or you had a hacker or virus or Trojan attack?

Could you re-create this information? If so, how much time would it take? How much would it cost? Most importantly, would your business survive?

In today's economic climate, it is vital to protect your assets and one of the most important assets you have is your data. If you lost it, it could possibly close your store.

Here are some statistics:

• "82% of companies are not prepared to handle a computer system disaster" - Comdisco Vulernability Index Research Report
• "83% of corporate data recoveries from tape backup FAIL" - Comdisco Vulernability Index Research Report
• "Only 6% of companies that suffer from a catastrophic data loss survive" - Comdisco Vulernability Index Research Report

There are a million ways to back-up your computer but none of them work unless:

1. It happens every day no matter what
2. There is 100% certainty that the back-up was effective and you really can recover
3. That you will know if there is a problem with your back-up system before it is too late

We believe you should pay extra attention to your data safety and data recovery. Or you can simply have a professional service do it for you.

One Step highly recommends RetailBackup.com, and has worked with them for years. RetailBackup.com is the only backup system in the world that has concentrated on retail systems.

Retail Backup - Online Remote Backup Service

There are many reasons that One Step has partnered with RetailBackup.com over the years. One of the most important reasons is that this company is the only backup system in the world that has concentrated on retail POS systems.

Their system recognizes POS files, they know the structure of DAT files and the actual size of the packets is different than other back-up systems that know nothing about POS.

We have negotiated a special pricing for our clients to be certain that your back-up is always working no matter what -- a very small price to pay to avoid the horror and heartache of a crashed hard drive with no way to recover.

In an in-depth discussion with the President of RetailBackup, this is what was asked and this is what he answered:

When you back-up my data to your remote site, how can I be sure nobody will get into my Quicken records?		He told me and proved to me that all my data was encrypted when it left my PC and was encrypted when it landed on his back-up system. It would only return to usable data when it landed back on my PC using my password.
Who creates the password?		You do. Nobody else will ever be able to decode your data and nobody else will ever need to know your password.
How secure is the encryption?		Your bank uses 128 bit encryption for your checking and credit card account. We use 448 bit encryption; it has never been hacked or broken into in any circumstance it has been used. This is the industry standard.
Could you make it safer by encrypting it more?		Sure, but it would slow things down and run up the cost to a point that you wouldn’t want to pay for it.
Where is your data center?		New Jersey.
Where is the back-up of your data center?		Toronto, Canada
How secure is your data center?		You have to go through three levels of security to even get to the computers and disk drives. Each of those computers are themselves backed-up 100% of the time via a mirror image at another location – the location in Toronto, Canada.
How hard is it to get to my data if I have my password with me?		You can get your data any where, any time, from any place in the world. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Why wouldn’t I just use Google?		Because you have to remember to do it every day. Besides that, Google can lock you out of your data for no reason at all. If you check it out on the web there are some stories about that happening. I don’t think it’s likely but you have to remember the fine print says that they have control and you don’t. Besides that, it only happens if you remember to do it every day and you have to remember to check that it was done right.
So what do you cover in your back-up?		Everything you might need to have recovered including some things that you probably won’t know to back-up if you do it yourself such as your Outlook pst files and your email, and other obscure files that you really can’t live without but probably don’t even know exist.
So basically, I never have to worry about back-up again right?		Right. If there is even a possibility of a problem, our people call you and we get it fixed instantly. Just think of us as back-up butlers. We are here to serve and serve well.
So what if I want to go on a vacation for a week; what happens?		Your system gets backed-up at the office no matter what. No matter what email comes in, no matter what your employees do; you are backed-up without worry!
What if there is a problem and you can’t reach me?		We keep calling until we connect with you or your designated contact. We’ll call you on all your numbers and send you email until we reach you or your designated contact. Once we reach you or your designated contact, we’ll fix the problem.

Contact an account representative at One Step Retail Solutions right now and set up this backup for your data. Or request more information specific to your circumstances by filling out the form to the left. The peace of mind that will be yours knowing your data is secure will be worth it. Call (800) 266-1328.

Some success testimonials:

"Recently our servers along with some peripherals were stolen from our company’s server room. We had been backing-up our data to tapes and CDs. We kept our backup tapes and CDs in a box next to the servers. I know if we had still been backing up to tapes or CDs, all our backups would have been gone too. This would have been devastating to our business. We would have lost all our accounting, inventory and customized application data.

Thanks to your referral to Retailbackup.com we were able to save all of our data at such a small cost compared to what we would have lost. Our decision to work with Retailbackup.com literally saved our business!"

-- Surf shop, San Juan Capistrano, California

Retailbackup.com offers worry-free service. Although we have our own IT department, it feels good to leave our data backup function in the hands of specialized and highly experienced people of Retailbackup.com. They backup our data on a nightly basis. When there has been a problem, we have received personal phone calls to let us know that backup did not go well or missed a file. It is great to know that someone is literally monitoring our backup to make sure we are backed up at all times. Additionally, the Retail Backup support team has helped us solve a very difficult polling problem, due to our internal and wide area network issues, in our retail point-of-sale software. Thank you guys and thank you Retail Backup!

-- Apparel retailer, New York City

"Some of the best advice we got from One Step was to use Backup Nation to back us up every night. I can’t tell you what peace of mind we have knowing that our data is secure."

-- Dede of Village Kitchen Shoppe