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4 Situations Where You Want a Robust Backup Recovery Plan

Backup Recovery Plan on a laptop screen in office

Disaster recovery plans cover you for disaster situations and also simple file recovery

Businesses often underestimate just how important a backup recovery plan really is. Backup recovery plans are put together as an afterthought, a ‘just in case’ like wearing your helmet to bicycle up and down your home street. But believe it or not, there are actually tons of different situations where a great backup plan is important, useful, or even necessary to keep your business on it’s feet. In fact, you’ll probably wind up using our backups more frequently than your top-of-the-line virus detection software.

Because like that bicycle helmet, a good recovery plan can be the difference between business life and death when a disaster finally does come along. And you’ll be glad you were prepared. Let’s take a quick look at four different business circumstances where a backup recovery plan is vital. Circumstances that are surprisingly common in the wide business world.

1) A Software Update Fails and Corrupts All Your Data

Most of our software today updates automatically. We have it set up (or it sets itself up) to periodically check for updates, download them, and sell-install them in the dead of night when no one is using your computer work resources. This happens all the time and is something we’ve come to rely on. But not all updates work correctly. A single piece of misaligned data that was damaged in the download can wreck the entire update.

And worse, updating currently active business software means that one corrupted auto-update can put your entire business worth of stored internal data at risk. An automatic update can fail and corrupt some or every scrap of data stored inside the original un-updated version. With a comprehensive backup recovery plan, however, you can easily restore all your data and software from the version before the update, then manually handle the update a second time to make sure nothing goes wrong.

2) An Employee Mistake Accidentally Deletes an Entire Database

Employee mistakes happen. And sometimes, they are enormous business-ruining mistakes no matter how genuinely sorry the employee is or how understandable the mistake might be. It is possible in some businesses for a mis-click or accidental keypress can delete reams of priceless business or customer data. Usually by clearing a database table or column without realizing that they have done so.

In this situation, you don’t want to have to lay the entire disaster at one employee’s feet. Instead, with a backup and recovery plan, it should be simple to rescue your company by restoring the lost data. From there, you can manage employee discipline with a calm and even approach that is appropriate to the mistake, not the potential averted consequences.

3) Your Entire Company Network is Ransomware’d

Then, of course, there’s the ransomware and other network-wide malware attacks that freeze you out of your own system. Because you can’t trust hackers to respond honorably to a pay-off, it’s important to assume that any computer compromised by ransomware or similar is probably ‘dead’. In other words, it needs to be wiped to factory settings to eradicate the malware and then restored to a functional business state through backup recovery.

If you have backups of your workstation setup and/or your entire network, this is the time to bust them out. Wipe everything that could be infected and rebuild our on-site computer system back from the ground up. The better your backups and implementation are, the more completely and quickly you can recover from a widespread malware attack.

4) A Flash-Flood Drowns Your Office, Including Local Archives

Natural disasters are another unexpected way that your data could be threatened. Even with all the cloud services, most businesses have at least a few locally stored physical archives on local servers, disks, or drives. Some businesses have their computer systems still almost entirely on-site. But this puts ‘all your eggs in one basket’ in terms of physical risk to your office building.

As the last few years have proven, you can’t do much to predict when extreme weather is about to ravage your part of the country. And if your office is hit with flash floods, earthquakes or something as simple as a neighborhood fire, all your local files and computers could be destroyed. But with a robust set of cloud-stored backups, you can not only recover those local archives. You may be able to rebuild from scratch using your backups of the previous network and work stations.

Having a well-built and comprehensive backup structure and recovery plan is vital to business continuity and disaster recovery.  For more information about building the best backup recovery plan for your business, contact us today!

Does Your Backup Disaster Recovery (BDR) Solution Put You At Ease?

The right backup disaster recovery solution this winter season shown with a laptop in the snow after a blizzard

BDR is the clear choice for your backup needs.

If your business loses access to its data in the upcoming days, what would you do? How long do you think it will take you to recover from losing access to your data? For many businesses, losing access to data for one day can mean the entire business operations will be shut down until the issue is fixed.

With the start of January arriving, it is important that you take some time to review your current Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) plans before the next winter storm hits your area.

Your business can make it through terrible weather, disasters, power outages, and data loss if you are prepared. Many businesses make the decision to use a back-up solution. Unfortunately, many of those businesses are not able to recover in time when things go awry. This is why so many businesses have to close their business for good.

When you back up your data, you have only finished half the battle. It is also important that you need to be able to access all of your data in the case of an emergency. With the right services, you will be able to fully recover from disaster loss or data loss in a small amount of time. With the right services, your business will be up and running in no time.

When you have the proper BDR(Backup and Disaster Recovery) solution, your business can be operating again in a matter of minutes. When a business is down for even a short period of time, this can significantly hurt a company’s morale. Many businesses overlook the importance of getting their business running again after downtime. Many of the businesses do not pay attention to how long it takes for them to reboot their networks.

When your business finds the right BDR solution, you will not have to worry about several problems, including the following:

  • You will not have to worry about losing access to data that has been accidentally deleted. You will be able to get this data back.
  • You will not lose your data if your network or data has been hacked.
  • If any of your equipment has been lost or damaged, you will be able to retrieve this data.

We all know how vulnerable data can be. Data can be compromised at any given moment. Data can be compromised in a cyber attack, data can be lost during a power outage or natural disaster, and data can be deleted accidentally. When you take advantage of a business continuity solution, you will be able to restore everything you have lost during any point in time.

You do not have to have any fear during emergency situations because your business will not have to stop. With a local device, you will be able to restore any lost files, any lost applications, and so much more in a matter of minutes. A cloud backup will offer you the level of security you need if your system is ever in jeopardy.

It does not matter if you ever experience a power outage, fire, flood, natural disaster, or emergency situation, your Backup and Disaster Recovery(BDR) solution can restore everything you have lost. Your employees will also be connected to your business operations, and this will allow your business to continue running even if the office has been totaled. It does not matter where you will be located in the world, you will have access to your files, folders, and other applications.

If you want to have a BDR solution what will put your mind at ease, contact us today and ask about our services.