Data Loss is a Disaster, So Have a Plan to Address It

It takes a lot of hard work to build a company from scratch. You’ve likely made a lot of relationships with customers and vendors as well, building all kinds of new products and solutions in the process. So, what would you do if all of that disappeared in an instant?

Data Loss is Bad

Data loss is a serious threat to your business, and you should treat it as such.

While it’s true that cybercrime is a major cause of data loss, the truth is that it’s not the only potential cause of data loss. In fact, there are countless ways to lose your data, including hardware failure, system malfunctions, and even user error or accidental file deletion. All of these issues could wipe out databases, financial records, or project files, putting your business at risk.

To make matters worse, data loss is expensive, not just for the downtime, but for the entire recovery process associated with it.

The Importance of Backup

These days, businesses have a lot more reassurance than they once did thanks to innovations in backup and recovery technology.

A data backup plan that works (and works well) is one that uses automation to push copies of your data to multiple locations, including off-site and cloud-based storage. This automated solution is called BDR, and it takes snapshots of your data periodically while pushing those snapshots to various backup locations. Only data that’s been changed since the last update is pushed, so these backups can occur more frequently than your traditional backup that would back up all the data scheduled. 

So, what do you do with these copies of your data?

How to Implement a Disaster Recovery Plan

With a solid backup strategy, it’s time to put it to work with a recovery plan.

A sound disaster recovery plan will ensure minimal downtime from a data loss incident while also identifying key personnel for the process. This means you need to establish recovery time objectives (RTO) for how long it takes you to recover to an acceptable level of operations and a recovery point objective (RPO) for a data minimum to get things back in order. You must also test your data recovery plan so you know it works when the time comes.

Trust us, the last thing you want is to find out your plan doesn’t work when you actually need it.

Start Building Your Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy Today

Even if you hope you never have to use it, a backup and disaster recovery strategy is extremely important to the longevity of your business. Learn more about how to implement one by calling us today at (954) 834-2800.