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I grew up in a small town towards the north of Australia. Every few years or so, the wide river that snaked through our town would swell with monsoonal rains and break its banks, spilling across the two bridges that brought the town together. Kids like me would be cut off from school – which of course we didn\u2019t mind \u2013 but business owners would find their offices and staff scattered and divided.<\/p>\n

Thinking on the hypothetical of how we\u2019d deal with being cut off from our office or threatened with disaster brought me around to the reality of how we and many of our customers protect their businesses: remote backups.<\/p>\n

Not too long ago, remote backups were prone to connection problems, notoriously complicated and prohibitively expensive to all but the largest of businesses. Now they are pervasive. Consumer backup solutions like Dropbox and Drive are everywhere.<\/p>\n

Of course BackupAssist is no stranger to remote backups, whether onsite or offsite, and this article explores some of the ways you can perform these with BackupAssist. We\u2019ll look at ways you can create remote backups within your organisation and ways you can haul data offsite to keep it safe.<\/p>\n

Onsite and Offsite remote backups: How-to with BackupAssist<\/h2>\n
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Central Admin<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Let\u2019s face it, there are plenty of reasons to perform remote onsite backups. You might want to move data from a rickety but necessary old server to a RAID-10 NAS in a Fort Knox like safe room. Or you might not want to keep trudging down the hall, past the toilets, to the permafrost of the server room<\/p>\n

Well, an easy way to create remote onsite backups within your LAN area is to use Central Administration, which is included with the basic BackupAssist license. Central Administration lets you remotely access your installations of BackupAssist from a web browser in your LAN.<\/p>\n

To set up Central Administration:<\/h4>\n