Backup-Recovery

Peer to Peer networks are gaining a lot of attention these days. There are a number of reasons why people are turning to this option, among them more bandwidth, some excellent backup options, data storage, and continuous data protection.

A P2P network is not the same as a client server situation. In that scenario, the client has access to the limited resources of a server. With a P2P network, the resources of all the clients are shared. This means that every time a new user joins the network, the resources available to the whole group expand. In short, the bandwidth for a P2P network is only limited by how many users are part of the network.

This comes in handy when you are talking about fast and safe online backup of data. No longer bound by the limited resources of the server, you can use online data backup to store copies of important files. In the even of an accidental deletion of a file from your hard drive, the P2P setup allows you to recover deleted files from storage with ease. This online data backup with easy file recover makes the P2P a very attractive option.

Along with the data backup and file recovery, a P2P offers excellent data protection. With the combined resources of all the users, it becomes virtually impossible to break in and manipulate or destroy the data. This makes the P2P environment ideal for caching important documents that should be available on a need to know basis only. Any attempts to illegally access a back up file on the network will result in all sorts of alarms.

For persons who want to network with others in an informal network, there are free P2P offerings on the Internet. In fact, this may be the way to go if you’ve never had any experience with P2P. You can gather a few friends together and try out the P2P environment and see if it would be a good fit for use in your business. Once you have some experience via the free P2P application, you will be in a better position to select the best P2P solution for your work environment.

P2P usually sounds a little high tech to people who have never heard the term before and have no experience with it. Just about all of us are used to working in a client-server environment and actually don’t think twice about it anymore. The fact is that once you begin to see P2P as another and possibly better way to do what you have already been doing, plus a little more, the mystery fades and people find P2P is actually a pretty great thing.