Disaster Recovery and Planning: Backup strategy:
With the rise in information technology and the reliance on business-critical data, the landscape has changed in recent years in favor of protecting irreplaceable data. This is especially evident in every small and mid-size business , with most computer systems backing up digital information to limit data loss and to aid data recovery.
It is believed that some of the companies spend up to 25% of their budgets on disaster recovery planning; this is intended to avoid larger losses. Of companies that had a major loss of computerized records, 43% never reopen, 51% close within two years, and only 6% will survive long-term.
The current data protection market is characterized by:
- Rapidly changing customer needs that are driven by data growth, regulatory issues and the growing importance to access data quickly by retaining it online.
- An ever-shrinking time frame for backing up data, which is burdening conventional tape backup technologies.
- More small business are moivng their data into a digital format.
What would you do if you wake up tomorrow to findout that all your company data has been compromised, stolen or distroyed by fire, rain or by a nature disaster?
This is a quiestion that as a small business should be given a very high priority. You could spend all the money you have in implemeting the best systesms and software out there, but without a the proper backup and disaster recovery plan in place it that systems means nothing. Our goal is to analyse your current data and backup solution and come up with a plan to prevent data lost. We use the lastest technologies to acomplish this.
- Server imaging (We a well known 3rd party software to take an image of your server for faster recovery)
- Off-site backup (We use a sett of 10 tapes, and rotes those tapes, by taking tapes off site or placing tapes in a fire proof safe)
- On-line backup (We use a very reliable company for our online backup)
- RAID 5 configurations ( 3 hard drives are mirrored with eachothers for faster and data reduncy, , if one disk fails data still availble on other disks)
Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted or inaccessible primary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data is being salvaged from storage media formats such as hard disk drive, storage tapes, CDs, DVDs, RAID, and other electronics. This can be due to physical damage to the storage device or logical damage to the file system that prevents it from being mounted by the host operating system.
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