Having an IT disaster is every business owner’s nightmare and in order to avoid such unwanted situations from occurring, almost every large business has a disaster recovery plan in place. Simply put, IT disaster recovery creates a secondary site in order to hold important information in remote places in case an IT disaster occurs within the company’s primary data centre.
These secondary sites essentially duplicate data so that supplementary copies are at hand, in the case that hardware fails.
If you are keen to update your company’s disaster recovery system or do not have any such system in place and think it is about time that you did make the sensible precaution of backing up vital company data, take a look at the following top disaster recovery tips.
Online backup
One of the most effective ways to duplicate important data so that it is not lost if an IT disaster was to occur, is to have online backup. Businesses that are connected to the internet – and let’s be honest being on the World Wide Web is essentially for practically all businesses these days – can set all its key data and important files so that they are backed up automatically each day. Alternatively or additionally, certain computers can be backed up directly.
Unlike the somewhat misconception that IT recovery strategies are costly, online backup is an extremely cost-effective and efficient way of ensuring that if an IT disaster does strike, your business’ data will not be flushed away and never to be seen again.
Install Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Another relatively inexpensive solution to backing up vital company data is to buy a NAS box, which will enable you to store extra copies of files and data onsite.
Most NAS’s come with data protection, built-in security and are so simple to use that they can be operated by employees that are not from an IT environment. A 4T Network Attached Storage, for example, will proved extra-storage and file-sharing for up to 25 employees, as well as backup.
Consider hosting
It is widely advised within the world of IT that small to medium-sized businesses use software such as a service (SaaS) to support and backup their key application to protect them in case an IT breakdown occurs.
SaaS’s are hosted by the vendor and are delivered over the internet and incorporate a reliable and efficient backup plan. SaaS’s are popular amongst SMBs because they provide more sophisticated data than the business is likely to be able to put together and manage itself.
