If your server suddenly crashed and ALL your data was erased, how long would it take before your business was back up and running as usual?
Read on if you aren't sure or think it would only be a short period. Below are three common, costly misunderstandings most business owners have about their data backup that give them a false sense of security:
Misunderstanding #1: Believing that tape backups are a reliable way to secure your data... Wrong! Tape backups have an average failure rate of over 99% (no, that's not a typo). What makes this even worse is that tape backups will appear to be working, giving you a false sense of security.
Misunderstanding #2: Backing up your data will allow you to restore your network to its original state quickly and easily. Wrong again!
Having just a copy of your data doesn't guarantee this at all. To help you understand, let me give you a simple analogy.
Let's suppose we made a replica of all the items in your house right now and put them offsite in a storage facility - that's a backup of your "data." If your house burned to the ground (God forbid!), we would have to rebuild the HOUSE (the server, software, and supporting environment) BEFORE we could restore all your items from the storage facility. That takes some time. That's why simply having an offsite copy of your data doesn't guarantee you'll be back up and running fast. It could take days - possibly weeks - before everything was restored, assuming you HAVE the data in a clean state and all the installed software disks and associated patches.
Misunderstanding #3: Trusting that their backup is Automatically Working Without Doing Periodic Test Restores. I see this happening a LOT - business owner thinks their backups are working because they don't see any error messages or apparent problems. Then, when they need to restore a file, they discover the backups stopped working MONTHS ago, and all that data is gone.
Want To Know if your Data is Safe? Our FREE Disaster Recovery Audit Will Reveal the Truth.
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Disaster recovery audit - a $500 value. At no cost or obligation, we'll come to your office and review your current backup to verify that your data is being backed up properly and could be restored in the event of a disaster.
We can also show you the fastest, most reliable way to ensure you never have to worry about losing all your data. or being "out of business." Between a natural disaster, virus, hacker attack, hardware failure, or other data-erasing disasters, it is not a question of if but when.
To claim your FREE diagnostic service call, call us at the number above or email us at
peter.heinicke@pcmethods.com.