Your business’s data is a financial asset that you need to protect.
According to the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year.
CAN YOUR COMPANY SURVIVE A DATA DISASTER?
Determine your storage needs
Which files do you need to back up? How much storage space do you need?
Decide when your file backup should occur
How often do you need to back up your files: daily, weekly, monthly, etc.?
Create a local backup and Cloud backup
Local backup:An on-site backup solution such as a second internal drive, external hard drive, network attached storage (NAS), or CD/DVD-ROM.Cloud backup:An off-site cloud backup solution that keeps your data safe and accessible if a disaster happens at your physical location.
Test your backups
The worst time to discover that your backup has failed is when you realize you need it the most. Make sure you test your backups regularly
COST OF DATA BACKUP AND RECOVERY
Next, you’ll need to decide how often you want to back up your data and how long you want the backup to last. The longer you want the data available and the more often you want to back it up, the more expensive your data backup and recovery solution will be.
Finally, you need to consider how accessible you want your data to be. Will you want continuous access to your data backup or just intermittent access?
DISASTER RECOVERY
Data disasters from water-damaged hardware to overwritten files can happen to any business at any time. With a proper data backup plan, NetXQ can protect your business’s files from any disaster, including:
Natural Disaster
Natural Disaster
Fires, hurricanes, tornadoes—natural disasters can strike at any moment and destroy any on-site hardware that houses your data.
Cyberattacks
Cyberattacks
Data is a valuable resource. Without proper cybersecurity, hackers can steal, manipulate, and destroy your business’s data and reputation.
Hardware Failure
Hardware Failure
Multilayered data backup is essential when your hardware stops working. If all of your files are in one place, and that piece of hardware fails, you could lose everything.
File Corruption
File Corruption
File corruption can happen for a number of reasons, including viruses, operating system error, and file writing error. Once corrupted, files are difficult to repair.
Theft
Theft
Technology is expensive and oftentimes small enough to steal. If someone sneaks into your business and steals hardware, a data backup is essential.
Human Error
Human Error
We’ve all been there—you accidentally delete or overwrite an important file and have to start over from the beginning. With a good data backup, you can retrieve past versions of files.
