Everything you need to know about Backup and Disaster Recovery
Backup
You sell a product. You provide a service. You give people what they want. But all of that relies on one crucial thing: your business being operational. What happens if your organization loses its data? It is your business’s most critical corporate asset, loss of data can have significant financial consequences — unproductive employees, dissatisfied clients, lost sales, and additional costs.
So let’s stop to think for a moment ….what would you do if disaster struck, and all your important business information and processes vanished into thin air? Do you have a backup solution in place to get your services online quickly after disaster strikes?
We all know a disaster can occur from events like fires, cyclones, failed hardware, power outages, a cyber-attack OR even a disgruntled employee who decides to wipe or steal some data … just because.
The reality is … even though we are aware a disaster can happen, we presume it will happen to someone else. So when disaster strikes, the long term consequences are often more costly than having a backup solution plan in place.
Back ten years ago you were limited to tape as a means of backup. With every server we install we installed a tape backup. Today there are far more choices and options. With some of the options available today you can minimise your downtime and recovery to minutes.
If you have onsite servers, there is a built in backup tool for all Microsoft Server editions. It backups you to a fixed local disk. It is a good basic option, but if you or your IT Company are using it, it falls very short compared to other solutions on the market. It falls short on backing up Virtual servers, the media to which it can be backed up to, monitoring and reporting.
There are now tools on the market which will backup your physical or virtual server allowing you access to specific data or files as well as allowing you to mount the backup image and gain access to your server quickly. The backup are now usually stored on a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. Nortec use a number of solutions dependent on what your backup requirements are. The main solutions we support include Veeam, Storagecraft, and Datto.
Nortec’s SPOR Backup Solution takes bootable snapshots of your servers and stores them on a NAS. These snapshots have a negligible effect on your network and can be run multiple times a day. SPOR then over night backs these images up to our data centre.
Recovery from SPOR can be as simple as restring back from your on premise NAS.
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What is Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Statistics show that on average, over 40% of businesses that do not have a Disaster Recovery Plan go out of business after a major loss like a fire, a break-in, a storm, or sabotage. A Good Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan Increases Your Chances of Recovery
There is no reason a temporary setback should turn into a permanent failure – if you protect your organization before disaster strikes. The first step is to create a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan. We can help you get started right away. We will put together a comprehensive plan for your entire organization, considering key components crucial to your recovery, and establish a formal process to be followed to restore your business continuity when a disaster occurs.
Your Disaster Recovery Plan will be a comprehensive, step-by-step process for you and your staff to follow, covering such items as contacting your local authorities and insurance carriers, re-establishing phone service, sourcing equipment, restoring data, and all essentials needed to restore your organization’s operational capability.
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How we can help
So let me ask you: how long would it take to get your business back on track after disaster hits?
For more information on the importance of a disaster backup solution and how it can benefit your business, leverage our expertise. Increase your productivity and efficiency while reducing costs and mitigating risk. Contact us today to discuss the many benefits we can provide your business.