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Business Continuity Planning –Does Your Business Have A Back Up Protocol

New business owners have a lot of worries to keep them tossing and turning at night into the wee hours. One technology ‘what if’ is the loss of critical data to a server crash, virus, hard drive failure or a larger mishap such as a fire or flood.

For new business owners working hard to build and develop their business, the thought of backup are probably not high on the priority list but any backup solution is better than none. Something as simple as copying critical data to a external hard drive or memory stick once a day or even once a week.

Sure, even memory sticks fail but at least USB memory recovery is a viable option as a simple form of data backup

Even burning files to CD or DVD and storing them in a separate location such as a managers or directors house or even just away for the computer you are backing up is better than no policy at all, but you then need to make sure that you stick to the routine.

Then there is the important job of making sure that you can recovery your data easily from your backup as there is little point in having a system in place only to find that it does not work when you need it most.

As well as the potential cost of attempted data recovery when a backup has been found to fail , there is also the intangible (until it happens) cost of lost business due to system down time, and in extreme cases total business failure if legislation required business records to be kept for any length of time, which can be years.

Generally speaking most small businesses will not think about backup solutions until it is too late and they have lost their data.

There are other backup options available. Internet based or off-site backup is one popular option however data recovery from this method can be time consuming as you would have to download all your data.

An emerging very effective form of data backup is coming to the fore which is of course online data backup. This simply means that once the initial backup is completed, a protocol runs in the background incrementally backing up new data on a scheduled basis.

Online data backup is becoming a very favourable option for savvy IT professionals and local computer repair companies.

Another benefit for this is if your computer/laptop gets stolen you will have a backup of all your data.

It is not really important which of these options you choose to implement into your business just as long as you have a backup in place.

And of course an effective backup policy is far less costly than the costs of disaster recovery and data recovery .

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