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Backup Storage

Back up files for immediate disaster recovery
and fast business continuance.

Loss of information in a paper-based system can be caused by a wide variety of events from natural disasters such as floods, tornados, hurricanes or earthquakes. For computer systems, hardware/software failures, power interruptions, malicious activities or computer viruses can be just as damaging. Data backups are necessary for any business system and are required by law for organizations that fall under Sarbanes Oxley. Fortunately, electronic information is much easier to back up and restore in the event of a disaster than paper files. Document management systems allow you to create and maintain duplicates of all the paper documents in your company at a secondary location.

In the PaperWise system, records are stored as electronic data on standard computer servers. This redundancy permits efficient backups with conventional methods like tape, data replication, or online backup services. Data restoration is relatively easy to accomplish in the event of data loss or a system failure. Ideally, the document management system architecture is designed to allow minimal data transfer for daily or incremental backups.

PaperWise also offers an online backup service that works in conjunction with the system. This method automatically replicates data located on your network servers to an off-site date center. In the event of a failure, local users can quickly be redirected to the off-site source and operations can continue normally until local systems are restored. If the office facilities are uninhabitable, hosted backup services can allow operations to continue from any location via Web access until facilities are restored.