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You can’t have a disaster recovery plan until you first have a good backup solution. Is your backup solution good—or just good enough?

The traditional backup process was done to tape – which had a number of limitations including high cost (particularly as capacity increases), difficult upgrades, degradation over time, and slow backup and restoration. Over the past three to five years, there has been a transition to hard-disk-based backup solutions that generally offer the ability to easily increase capacity as well as backup and restore much faster.

Traditional backup processes captured only one snapshot of your information per day. So if your backup was scheduled to take place at 12 a.m., you risked losing the entire following day’s work in the case of a disaster.

The backup process traditionally involved significant manual labor. Someone had to ensure that the correct media was in the drive. Someone had to look at the results of the backup to ensure that it was completed (and ideally perform periodic data restorations). Then, when the backup was complete, someone had to take it offsite for safekeeping.

While some businesses have the capabilities to perform all of these backup-related tasks, many others don’t—and therefore have no idea if their backups will be there when needed.

How can you make your backup system better?

• First, you should be absolutely sure that every bit of your data is backed up multiple times per day.

• Second, the human element should be completely eliminated from the equation.

• Third, restoration should be quick and flexible, so you can bring back any part of your data or all of it, depending on your needs.

• Finally, the impact on your business should be minimal. In fact, you should be unaware that a backup is even in progress.

We can help you set up and maintain a secure backup solution perfect for your needs. Contact us for more information.