There are even rumblings from many IT executives that the cloud backup is quicker than the primary backup.

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There are cases in which cloud could function as the primary backup site, with on-premises backup as the failover environment.

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That included making sure the Hackensack branch could serve as a backup home base in the event that both the primary and backup power at the main office went down.

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First, the professional installer had enabled automatic backup between the primary disk partition and a backup disk partition on the same physical disk.

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Last spring a tornado in Georgia wiped out the primary and backup data centers at Sumter Regional Hospital in South Carolina.

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This not only affected the primary but also the secondary backup network which is supposed to protect against these kinds of problems.

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The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with Nasa's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.

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Similarly, with less critical services, you should be able to reprovision from backup storage after a short but acceptable outage, even when the primary storage has been lost.

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