Disaster recovery

Data backup involves making copies of your digital data (files, databases, configurations, etc.) and storing them in a separate location or medium to ensure that data can be recovered in case of data loss or corruption.

Data backup is crucial because it helps protect against data loss due to various factors such as hardware failures, cyber attacks (like ransomware), accidental deletion, and natural disasters. It ensures business continuity and data integrity.

Back up all critical data, including documents, databases, emails, system configurations, and any other data that is essential for your organisation’s operations and compliance.

The frequency of backups depends on your organisation’s needs and the rate of data change. Generally, daily or incremental backups are common for frequently changing data, while less dynamic data may be backed up less frequently.

Full backups copy all selected data every time, incremental backups copy only changed data since the last backup, and differential backups copy all changes since the last full backup.

Backups should be stored in secure locations, both on-site and off-site. Cloud storage solutions should also be considered for added redundancy and accessibility.

Disaster recovery is a comprehensive plan for restoring data, systems, and operations after a catastrophic event, such as a natural disaster, cyber attack, or major hardware failure.

Yes, regular backups are just one component of disaster recovery. A disaster recovery plan includes not only data recovery but also a strategy for resuming business operations and mitigating damage during a disaster.

Regularly conduct simulated disaster recovery tests to ensure that backups can be successfully restored. Test different scenarios to identify weaknesses in your recovery plan.

Consider factors like scalability, compatibility with your systems, security features, ease of use and cost. However if this is something that you feel is outside your technical capability, you can outsource to a managed service provider, such as Techsol who will be technical experts in this field.

Costs can vary widely based on the chosen solution, storage capacity, and service level agreements. It’s important to budget for hardware, software, cloud storage to manage backups.

Start by assessing your business needs, identifying critical data and systems, setting RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) targets, and then designing a backup and recovery strategy that aligns with these objectives.

Creating a backup and recovery plan can seem quite overwhelming to businesses that do not have an internal IT resource. By outsourcing to a Managed Services Provider such as Techsol, we can do the hard work for you, creating a plan that is tailored to your business and recommending a suitable solution for your business.