Data Backup Strategy: Protecting Your Business

Backup Is Insurance

Data loss destroys businesses. Comprehensive backup strategy ensures survival.

Full backup captures everything. Incremental backs up changes only. Differential backs up since last full. Synthetic full combines incrementals.

Three copies of data minimum. Two different storage media. One copy offsite. One copy offline/air-gapped.

Veeam protects virtual environments. Acronis offers comprehensive protection. Carbonite serves small business. AWS Backup centralizes cloud backups.

NAS devices provide network storage. External drives for workstations. Tape for archival compliance. Snapshot for quick recovery.

Continuous backup for critical data. Hourly for active files. Daily for standard operations. Weekly for archival data.

Test restores monthly at minimum. Verify data integrity regularly. Document recovery procedures. Time recovery processes.

Immutable backups cannot be encrypted. Air-gapped copies survive attacks. Versioning enables point-in-time recovery. Offline storage is essential.

Recovery Point Objective: maximum acceptable data loss. Recovery Time Objective: maximum acceptable downtime. Balance cost against business impact.

Document procedures thoroughly. Assign roles and responsibilities. Test plans annually. Update based on changes.

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