I'm often amazed by the lack of backups / disaster recovery that I see at businesses large and small that we deal with.
so here's a challenge....
pretend your PC has been stolen. now see how long it takes to start with a clean Windows install (or other operating system that you use) and get completely back up and running with all your software installed and all your business data set up again and without any data loss.
if you are back up and running in no time, congratulations !
if not, you might want to give some thought to backups.
you can get a 500Gb external disk these days for less than
Was discussing this the other day! Very important, should be written into procedure manuals as standard!
Only required business applications running on the PC's and laptops are Outlook, and full office suite. Pop into PC world and be up and running in no time  No business data is stored on any PC or laptop, everything is accessed via the LAN, and our office servers. File, Exchange and Intranet servers backed up daily to an extenal USB drive, and then a nightly incremental backup to an off site server. Slow, but runs through the night, so doesn't matter. By the same token, as we live in a digital age, I now keep all personal data, photos, music etc on a home server, and that backs up incrementally to the office Most of us have growing digital photo or video collections, do you back this priceless data up? No point having a stack of CDR's with your photo's on next to your PC if your house goes up in smoke while your on your hol's!! How many times in my IT days did I see the collection of backup tapes sat next to the file server it was backing up  Very good point though Tom, and hopefully this thread makes a few people have a little think. Put a Disaster Recovery plan in place now, and save yourself a lot of heart ache and possibly your business!
mulitple backups. Local usb HD + duplicate to USB key (so I can carry them in my pocket) + cloud storage. Stavros
“mulitple backups. Local usb HD + duplicate to USB key (so I can carry them in my pocket) + cloud storage.” you trust business data to a 3rd party Clown sorry Cloud outfit?
Yep. They are called Google you may have heard of them. >;OP Stavros
Did the sprogg keep you awake again last night ya stroppy get. Stavros
Yeah Steve at least with Stavros we know he is ALWAYS p*****d off! Love ya really Stav's |
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