Have you ever lost an hour of work on your computer?
Now imagine if you lost days or weeks of work – or imagine losing your client database, financial records, and all of the work files your company has ever produced or compiled.
How quickly do you think you could recover, if at all?
If you don’t have a good answer to the above question or a rock-solid disaster recovery plan in place, you are quite literally playing Russian roulette with your businesses data.
Lots of businesses think ‘But that could never happen to me’ however with the number of threats constantly growing, it's not a matter of if you will have a problem, but rather a matter of when.
When it comes to backing up and protecting your company’s critical data, you need to know for certain – without any lingering doubts – that you could recover your files and be back up and running again fast after a natural disaster, server crash, hacker attack or other data crippling event.
The ONLY way to completely protect your data and guarantee that you could restore it after a major disaster is by maintaining an up-to-date copy of your data in multiple locations, most commonly locally and remotely in the cloud. Remote backups, also called offsite backups, online backups, or managed backups, are the way to go. This service allows you to maintain a secure copy of your data in a different location rather than just in your office.
Many business owners think that data backup is the same as disaster recovery – it's not. Many business owners are shocked to find out how long and arduous the process is to get all their data back after a disaster event, that is assuming they have a good, clean copy of all their data. Just having a copy of your data isn’t enough; you need to have a plan in place to get everything restored quickly. A major factor in a Disaster Recovery process is also where the data can be recovered to. If the primary location was not accessible due to fire then an alternative location will be required.
The most important steps you can take to protect your data are:
- Make sure your files are automatically backed up every night with the preference for local and cloud base storage.
- Ensure your data is safe from fire, floods, storms, viruses, hackers, hardware, malfunctions, and human error.
- Make sure you can back up ALL your data and not be limited to the size of a tape drive or removable hard disk.
- Have a plan in place on how to get your data back and your business up and running if the disaster was to strike.
- Make sure your disaster recovery plan has been verified and that backups can be restored successfully.
Stay Safe
Damien
