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What do you know about Backup & Disaster Recovery? If you answered not that much let our team help you understand what you need to do to be prepared.
These are just some of the things that small business owners don’t always think about until it’s too late about backup & disaster recovery. Let one of the technicians at Husky Bros IT Services come to your location. Then give you a free quote on a cost-effective plan for you to answer these questions. We can offer plans that you or your employees can manage or a plan that is fully managed by us.
Because every business should have a disaster recovery plan. In case of employee theft, inclement weather, and even accidental data loss from a computer or server going down? We can come onsite to your location and take a look around and ask a bunch of questions. Take what we have learned back to our office. Then we will come up with a few different options that can include. A strategy for online or onsite backup or a combination of both. Also, a disaster recovery plan to show you what to do when a disaster does occur. The disaster recovery plan can cover Virtual Data Recovery, File Data Recovery, Hard Drive and Computer Recovery. From there you can let us know how much or how little of the plan you want to put in place.
Surveys found that incidents that resulted in data loss have increased. Those surveys have calculated that businesses have experienced losses totaling up to $75 billion per year. Due to network downtime and data loss. The FBI suggests ransomware payments exceed $1 billion.
Even modest security breaches impacting just a few files can have a significant effect on that company. It is said that attacks that involve the loss of fewer than 100 files. Can cost a company any were between $18,000 and $35,000.
Ransomware attacks are not the only thing you need to protect yourself against. It is said that more than 40 percent of companies fail to recover after suffering a natural disaster, and another 25 percent fail within a year. Part of the issue has to do with failure to back up data, leaving companies starting from zero after a data loss event.
Colorado’s most common natural disasters include wildfires, floods, winter storms, severe storms, tornadoes, and droughts. Less significant disasters include landslides, power outages, and earthquakes. Between 1953 and 2019, Colorado declared 83 major disasters, of which wildfires and floods happened the most according to FEMA. But sadly, countless businesses still do not perform consistent, proper recoverable backups. Most of the small businesses fail to complete a daily backup, and many don’t perform backups at all due to a lack of education.
There are many ways to backup your data. Husky Bros IT services can help you decide what works best for your company and your wallet.
One of the easiest options is to use removable media such as CDs, DVDs, newer Blu-Ray disks, or USB flash drives. This can be practical for smaller businesses that do not have a lot of data and the data doesn’t change much. But if your data is always changing and you are always adding more this may not be the best option for you. Another downfall to this option is you need to make sure you store your backups in a separate location, Because if a disaster strikes you may still lose all your data.
You can set up a system that is a copy or clone of the system you want to backup. The problem with this option is it can be difficult to manage for someone who does not know what they are doing. Plus you will have to have a system to make sure a copy of the data is replicated between the two systems.
There are many different backup hardware appliances, such as RAID (redundant arrays of independent disks), or as part of a NAS (network-attached storage), SAN (storage area network), or tiered storage systems. These backup appliances come with several different storage capacities and pre-integrated backup software. You install backup agents on the systems you need to back up, define your backup schedule and policy, and the data starts streaming to the backup device.
Software-based backup solutions are more complex to deploy and configure than hardware appliances but offer greater flexibility. They allow you to define which systems and data you’d like to back up, allocate backups to the storage device of your choice, and automatically manage the backup process.
There are many different cloud backup vendors out there. Cloud backup providers offer Backup as a Service (BaaS) solutions, this is where the backup software pushes your data to a public or private cloud, and in case of disaster, you can pull that data back down once you have replaced any hardware that has been destroyed or has been corrupted in some other way. The downside of using the public cloud option, you need to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards, and consider that over time, data storage costs in the cloud will be much higher than the cost of deploying similar storage on-premises
There are many different backup strategies. But we like the 3-2-1 strategy. This strategy involves three copies located in two locations, such as on-premise and cloud storage places. Ultimately, it would be best if you produced these backups at least once a day for maximum protection.
No matter which one of these options you choose Husky Bros IT Service can help you set up and manage and test your backups with 24/7 support. Because no matter how much data you back up if the data that you backup is bad you still have lost everything. So let us help you with your Backup & Disaster Recovery plan today.
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