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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

Does Your Business Have a Successful Data Backup Solution?

Does Your Business Have a Successful Data Backup Solution?

Data backup is one of the most imperative aspects of maintaining a business, but it’s not something that some businesses even consider until it’s too late to reverse the damage done. In any case, data backup is a vital part of any successful business, but it’s not as simple as implementing a solution and praying it works. Let's go through the proper steps for making sure your business has a successful data backup solution when it’s needed most.

What's the Difference between Data Backup and Disaster Recovery?
Many business professionals utilize data backup and disaster recovery as if they are interchangeable, but this is simply not the case; they are two very different practices that target specific parts of the business continuity process.

Data backup is the act of creating a separate physical copy of your data that can be restored at a later date, while disaster recovery includes the act of actually restoring the data using the data backup. One can’t happen without the other existing, so they are both integral to the continuity of a business’s successful restoration.

Details on Data Backup
In particular, you should be focused on which data and how much of it you want to back up. It’s imperative to remember that not all data will be as vital as the rest, so it’s important that you think about what data will be necessary to keep your business functional during operational troubles. As a rule, you should try to back up as much as you can without it affecting your ability to restore later on. The ideal data backup process will happen automatically without any resource dedicated to running it, as user error has sunk more than a few businesses in need of a data backup.

Details on Disaster Recovery
On a related note, disaster recovery involves the process of restoring your data following a disaster. The main way of measuring effectiveness of disaster recovery is speed; how fast can you get back into a comparable situation where you’re not operating at a loss. You should also consider where you’re trying to restore from, since best practices dictate that you have at least three copies of your data with one stored off-site in a secure data center, one stored in the cloud, and one stored on-site for ease of access. Moreover, you need to consider running automated tests to ensure the disaster recovery process will work the way you want it to when you need it most.

Does your organization need help implementing data backup and disaster recovery? Our all-in-one Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) solution can provide you with a powerful preventative solution to ensure your business doesn’t fall to unexpected disasters. To learn more, reach out to Macro Systems at 703-359-9211.

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