Tech Talk: Computer Back-Ups
The Avoidable Business Risk
Are you comfortable with your business’s backup solution? Even if your backups are spread across multiple external hard drives, your valuable data isn’t truly secure. For home users, external hard drives may be the ideal solution, but even the loss of family pictures and music doesn’t represent the level of financial loss that can be incurred by a business. The fact that it works for home users doesn’t mean that this practice should be carried over to a business environment. Data is critical to the success of a business.
More and more offices are moving to a paperless system. They are moving away from having physical copies of their data on site and storing them on file servers. What happens when all this data is lost or corrupted?
Data backups are one of the most important processes that must to be configured in any technology deployment. There are multiple techniques for backing up. In my opinion, the best backup scenario is one that includes a server that is backed up locally to another piece of hardware, then the backup is sent to an offsite location where it is backed up again, and finally backed up to a cloud-based solution. This scenario removes a single point of failure and provides close to a 99% data recovery solution.
In the most basic sense, a business needs to ensure that they are creating a local and offsite backup. Business owners need to understand that without an offsite backup, they run the risk of losing data if there is a natural disaster that damages their office.
Backups are the backbone of a business. Without the backups, businesses can lose vital information that could make or break the organization. This is one business risk entrepreneurs do not want to take. What steps have you taken to ensure your data is secure?
Let me know if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions.
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