Why you need a Data Backup Plan for your business
Data Backup Planning
As a business owner, you know how important it is to protect your business - in many cases your data is your business. No doubt you have business insurance and protect your premises using security applications, but do you have a backup plan in place when it comes to your data?
Most large organisations have stringent and comprehensive data backup and recovery processes in place. They tend to deploy sophisticated software and cloud technology to ensure data loss is prevented and downtime recovery minimalised.
Smaller organisations don't have the know how or the resources to deploy sophisticated backup and recovery architecture. in fact, a lot of small businesses feel that they can avoid having a data backup strategy in place, but that could prove a very costly mistake. Without an effective reliable backup you risk substantial and permanent data loss, lengthy downtime and in severe cases business closure.
You may not consider your data valuable but ask yourself the question: How long would it take to enter that data again? Hours, weeks, months...and that's only if you have an audit trail of the data. es are your data is fundamental and losing it may cause severe disruption to your business. This makes data backup and recovery extremely important.
