A comprehensive data backup strategy requires great
efforts on your end. It is vital for data security and an excellent way to
guard against any disaster (man-made or natural). A good backup also provides
full protection against virus attacks, deteriorating HDD/SSDs and human errors.
After deciding on what items to backup, next step is how exactly to perform it.
Given below are seven easy tips essential for a backup
system to prevent data being lost in case a disaster hits your office:
Blueprint the Plan
Think about the variety of disasters that might occur
in your locality such as earthquake, fire or flood. Don't store backup in
basements if your locality lies in commonly flood hit areas. Give a due thought
about how sprinklers can affect the storage devices during a fire incidence.
Decide Backup routine
Make a normal schedule for implementing backups daily
on small storage devices. Take weekly or monthly backups of all your data in
server machines usually located offsite.
Understand Backups
Tailor your needs and choose only what suits you the
best. For example routine full backup is not an option if your data changes
weekly. In such scenarios, incremental backups can prove beneficial.
Test Backups Periodically
It is important to test whether backups performed in the
last days are doing their job (stored in order as expected) effectively or not.
Decide Alternate Locations
Get services from online backup companies so that the
data is still accessible if your organizational network goes down.
DVD’s and BlueRay Disks
It is appropriate to store all your data in DVD’s as if
a DVD gets corrupt only handful of data is lost and rest stays in your
archival.
Deploy RAID Servers
RAID
server is an affordable method of securing backups without
investing too much in technology.
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