How Well Does Your Business Understand Data Backup and Disaster Recovery?

We’ve all had days where our office is bustling with activity and everyone is producing a desirable amount of work. These kinds of days are what make being a business owner so fulfilling. This fulfillment, however, can be replaced with panic and discord in a heartbeat. All it takes is a disaster or hardware failure to bring down your entire operational infrastructure. Thankfully, all it takes to make a disaster a minor inconvenience is to be proactive about disaster recovery.

We’re surprised by the amount of businesses that go about their daily duties without any semblance of a quality business continuity plan. Despite this oversight, external backup is crucial to the success and survival of any modern business. Backup solutions often entail taking snapshots of data and sending it to an external data center for storage and recovery.

One of the more common methods of data backup is tape. Yet, despite tape backup being better than no backup, tape’s physical form can be destroyed by an external factor, like a fire, flood, or tornado. If you keep the backups on-site, and the disaster destroys your office, you’re completely out of luck. Furthermore, tape backups are so time-consuming that they have to be performed after-hours. Because they’re run manually, this makes it easy to forget to back up data, which makes tape backup more prone to user error than an automated solution.

This is why it’s especially important that you take careful consideration with your backup and disaster recovery solution. While there’s technically nothing wrong with using tape, it’s not the most convenient or effective solution available. It’s outdated compared to more modern backup systems. Instead of using a manual backup process, it would be easier to use an automated solution.

Compared to data backup, disaster recovery is something else altogether. Data recovery is the act of restoring lost data using your backups following a major disaster that destroyed your IT infrastructure or caused data loss. The worth of a disaster recovery solution is basically commensurate with how quickly it can be implemented. The faster the solution, the faster you can get back in business to avoid costly downtime.

Data backup and disaster recovery are both essential parts of any business continuity plan, and as such, we offer them in our own comprehensive Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) solution. Our BDR takes multiple snapshots of your data every day, and pushes these backups of your data to our secure, off-site data center, and in the cloud for easy access. These backups can then quickly be restored within moments, allowing for minimal downtime.

When time is of the essence, the last thing you want to deal with is a long recovery process. In fact, our BDR can even act as your server in the event of downtime. This lets your business get back in action as soon as possible.

For more information about how you can get back in the game following a major disaster, give k_Street Consulting, LLC a call at (202) 640-2737.