Have you ever stayed up at night worried about your digital assets? Most business owners have lost sleep because of the challenges that data backup and recovery can pose to confidence in your safety. This constant worry and stress will distract you from the things that matter, like expanding your business.
With a managed IT partner who understands what data backup and recovery can do for you, your business will experience a real revolution. A fully realized data backup and recovery plan ensures business continuity, more confident workers, and a more effective response to all dangers; digital or from mother nature. Together, we can help you implement and explore effective data backup solutions that will uniquely suit your needs.
What Is Data Backup and Recovery?
Data backup and recovery is periodically copying and storing your data offsite, restoring those files when disaster hits, and your systems fail – or are attacked. Backup and recovery of important data doesn’t just keep your business running smoothly. It protects and enhances your client’s trust by showcasing your responsibility and forward-thinking.
Implementing data backup and recovery strategies can be complicated, often taking the combined efforts of your entire IT team, alongside vendors, contractors, and administration. This coordination isn’t easy, but the time and money saved when you experience a disaster can be business-saving.
Do You Have a Backup and Recovery Plan?
Are you prepared for when disaster strikes? A comprehensive data backup and disaster recovery plan ensures that your team is focused on their tasks, which will bring you back online ASAP. When you make a plan, you need to take the time to discuss a few things across all teams:
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO): This is the timeline you will take to return your key systems and re-upload your critical information. How quickly a business will need to restart will depend on your business.
- Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs): A recovery point objective is the amount of data you need to resume working – some companies only need a few key documents or applications to return to activity, but others require nearly everything in their system.
- Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS): IT management companies often offer disaster recovery services to provide their data movement, preservation, and security expertise. If you lack an IT team, or your team isn’t experienced in recovery and storage, an outsider can fill in a crucial knowledge gap.
Protecting you from accidental deletion, human error, or system failure is important. We cannot overstate the number of times we have seen businesses avoid complete disaster thanks to fully-formed disaster recovery plans. So get started on this today, and call us if you need help or access to professional backup and recovery systems.
How Can You Ensure Comprehensive Data Backups?
The three major forms of backup are full backups, incremental backups, and differential backups. Each one has pros and cons, but no matter which method you choose, you will get the benefits of a backup that you can rely upon.
Full Backup
A full backup is simple and straightforward: all of your data is uploaded en masse, creating a second copy of your system’s most critical information. Repeatedly doing this is costly in terms of time, energy, and data, so many businesses opt for other, more efficient methods.
Incremental Backup
This backup style takes only small snapshots of data that has changed since the last update, resulting in multiple backups to create an up-to-date backup of your business systems. This can result in slower recovery times because of the multiple stored backups.
Differential Backup
A differential backup involves backing up files and folders that were changed since the last full backup- not the last small snapshot, like with incremental backups. This creates smaller backups for a more efficient system and fewer puzzle pieces when recovering.
There are major pros and cons to each method of backup. Are you prioritizing a comprehensive backup? Or more efficient systems? Depending on your business needs, each backup option can provide you with unique benefits and drawbacks to navigate.
Backup and Recovery the EZ Way!
Choosing the right backup and recovery options for your business will require you to ask hard questions about your business. What data do your employees need for work? How much time and money can you spend on backups? Are you prepared for disaster when it strikes? No matter how confident you are in your system, EZ Computer Solutions can help you navigate your business’s data backup and recovery solutions.
Our team is always ready to help you develop your IT infrastructure so that you will have no questions and all confidence in your ability to react. If you worry about experiencing a day of stress and confusion that just doesn’t end, call us yesterday! Don’t wait until it’s too late! You deserve a business with no worries or distractions from growing to be the best it can be.