Have you ever lost important files due to a system malfunction, a misplaced device, a virus, or any another reason? If so, you know how challenging it can be to recover the lost files. Often, you have to accept that the files are lost and you start fresh. Now, imagine this happening on a larger scale: all of the data that your business has been storing since its inception is suddenly gone. You then spend a ridiculous amount of time and money paying experts to try to recover your data, sometimes to no avail. If only you had a backup disaster recovery plan, you could have simply recovered your files from the backup data center and continued working.
While this may never happen to your business, what if it does? Having a backup disaster recovery plan is a preventative action. You never know if your files will be maliciously hacked and destroyed, or if your servers will suddenly fail, or if a natural disaster, like a tornado or a flood, will physically destroy your data. In the event that your business suffers from any kind of disaster, you can rest assured that you files are retrievable anywhere, anytime.
Having a recovery plan for your data will minimize interruption to your business in the event of a disaster. If you’re thinking that you don’t want to spend the money on backup, take the time to calculate how much you would lose in earnings if your business lost all of its data and had to spend a week or more of operation time trying to recover data. What if you can’t recover it? That’s even more time and money that you would spend getting your business back to where it was before your data loss, time and money that should have been spent on growing your business.
Having a data recovery plan can also help improve the efficiency of your systems. Going through your existing data and deciding what to back up and what to cut out can make your whole system run smoother. However tedious this may sound, it will allow you to determine where you should bring in new technologies and how you can streamline your processes.
One of the many benefits of having a backup disaster recovery plan is that it updates your backup data automatically. You’ll never have to spare a thought to manually back up your data, and your IT employees can spend their time working on improving your business instead of backing up data. You can rest assured that if you lost just one file or lost them all, that you will be able to get the files back and continue making money.
If you don’t already have a backup disaster recovery plan in action, consider getting one. The time and money that it will save you is valuable, and knowing that you will always be able to recover your data will reduce your stress in the event that it is somehow compromised.
