Consulting with many businesses, DTG, one of Connecticut’s oldest IT service recommends both daily and off site backups. What that means is that you should be backing up your company system on a daily basis. You can backup to a network storage system, tape drives or a local storage server. If you are backing up to tape, take at least one of the tapes home with you. Portable drives are also a good method of backup and go.

Small businesses can suffer catastrophic equipment failures and natural disasters just as global organizations do. Unfortunately, many small businesses fail to adequately protect their critical data or have aging storage devices that should be replaced with newer, more efficient technology.

Before you set up any form of tape backup drives on your system you must decide what backup strategy to use and what tape drive system best suits your needs.

What requirement do you have?

Is it for a LAN server, a PC or is it for a network at a large corporation?
Do you need scalability for you’re the backup drives you want to use?
You also need to look at different backup software solution to be used with tape drives!

Small business people need a working data backup strategy as the value of their businesses are more and more found stored on their computers.

Business contacts, PowerPoint presentations, contracts, emails, client databases and text documents are all vital information for individuals who perform business using their computers.

Bad things do happen!

Are you sure you can restore your data from your computer backup correctly and can you be back in business fast?
Do you have a working backup strategy, which is adapted to your business?
Let’s look at what can happen!

There are three different scenarios to consider here.
1. Specific files or folders you are working with are deleted by accident or failure.

2. Your hard disk stops working. You have a hard disk failure. Or you get a virus infection on your computer which destroys your data.

3. You find that your computer is no more. This can be caused be a natural disaster, a house fire or by someone stealing you computer.

Due to the very nature of the data loss; the action and preparation is different in each different case. It also depends on your specific circumstance.

Conclusion:

1. Make regular security data backups of the data you are working with on a daily basis and have the backup stored on a safe place. Preferably at a remote place.

2. Do make a backup of your hard disk when you have installed new software. This ensures that you can be back in business in the case of a corrupted hard disk or hard disk failure.

3. Document all your purchases and passwords. Keep records and store all installation software’s. Keep all this in a remote location.

Save yourself a lot of headaches and loss of hair. Call DTG for help in protecting your business and its data.

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Read more in our 6/12/2009 Blog entry: Data Backups You can never have enough of a good thing. Computer data backup and restore services