Save your data securely for long periods

Standard backups

With standard backup our users’ data is backed up every day, in duplicate, on servers in our Dutch data centers. Typically, this data is in frequent use and backups are stored for a limited period i.e. between 7 and 60 days, depending on the classification. In this case, longer storage is usually not necessary.

Tape backups

For a number of business sectors – including financial, legal and medical – laws and regulations apply that require longer data storage periods. To guarantee long storage periods, we recommend our offline solution of backup to tape. Offline tape backups are highly suitable for storing archive data and data with a legal retention obligation.

With our backup to tape data can be saved for seven years. We utilize a proven encryption system and provide a schedule of monthly and annual backups.

• Data is backed up to tape every month and this tape is stored for 12 months.
• At the end of each year, we make a year-end backup. On request this tape is kept for seven years with Iron Mountain.
• Tapes don’t have an infinite lifespan, therefore we ensure tapes are refreshed every year.

All data is encrypted and processed using AES-128 encryption. This protection is essential because the tapes are physically transported to a storage location.

While your tapes are stored in an external service provider’s facilities, TinkConnect manages their administration. We always know where a particular backup of yours is located.

To work online you must store data in the cloud. Tape backup is both a cost-saving and extra safe way of storing large amounts of data. By combining data storage methods, data used daily can be hosted in the cloud. Data that needs extra secure storage for long periods is stored on offline tapes.

Our standard backups meet high security standards and are hosted on NAS servers in an external data center. Tape backup, however, is the only backup method where data is stored analogously and offline. Thus the data is guaranteed untraceable and unreachable by malware. Tape backup security can’t be compared to storage on an external hard drive, NAS, Azure or HDD.

Would you like to discover more about the benefits of offline tape backups for your company? Our security experts are happy to advise you.

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TinkConnect is a certified Microsoft Partner with specialist expertise in Office 365 Business software and cloud services. We manage the Microsoft products for our customers and offer them a comprehensive support service.