The cloud has changed the way in which we carry out many everyday tasks, the cloud offers greater convenience, easier access to saved data, better security and no need to worry about cycling storage media. Therefore, it is not surprising that the adoption of cloud-based backup has soared across all sectors of industry. It makes the task easier and cost-effective at the same time. How Backup Works in The Past In the past, backing up data generally involved some form of removable media. The earliest backups tended to use magnetic tape, although, in more recent years, disk-to-disk backups or the use of flash drives has become more commonplace. The use of physical media brings its own problems as you need to keep multiple copies of data to be able to recover to different points. This not only means having to store large quantities of physical media; it means having to have a plan to cycle the media and re-use it in the correct sequence. This is quite a chore, and it can