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Did you back up today?
I am not talking about backing your car out of the driveway or out of a parking spot. I am sure we will all do that at some point over the course of the day! I am actually talking about backing up critical business data; making a second copy just in case the original gets corrupted, trashed or worse yet ends up as a congealed mass of plastic after a fire.
I am going to bet that most of you have answered yes for sure but don’t really have a clear picture of whether you actually did. If you did you probably don’t know if the backup is actually good because you haven’t tested the backup.
All sound familiar?
Over the years we have had so many examples of situations where backups clients were supposed to be making didn’t exist or were totally unusable. I could fill a book with stories. Examples like the offsite backup was actually left in the back of the car and the tape baked, or the offsite backup didn’t leave the office and ended up in the garbage, or the tape was blank because the tape unit didn’t work. We are all so busy that the lowly backup tape or disk is often an after thought. The problem is that there is a huge cost to the organization of not having a good backup of mission critical data.
How much would it cost my organization if my accounting dept., logistics dept. or any other dept. was closed for more than 24 hours because data is not there any more ?
I am going to bet that most of you will react by saying it would be a disaster. Take the 10 minutes to check if your backup is working before you leave the office, that what is on the tape or disk is good and that you have an offsite copy (secure web based services).
Data Recovery is stressful, takes time and it is not cheap !
So get backing up!
Ask us how to do it and more importantly have an offsite copy (secure web based services) at a logical cost.
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