How good are your backups ?

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 £50 so there's no excuse for not having backups of all your data. and with Vista you can backup your entire PC at the click of a button.

also, just imagine that your office building has burned down overnight.... hopefully you didn't have your backups in there....

Tom

CRM Software, Contact Management Software, Quotes, Invoicing and Billing, Contact Database for Small Business

Was discussing this the other day! Very important, should be written into procedure manuals as standard!

__________________
Web Design Portfolio | Social Media beats SEO

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!

__________________
cheers
Steve

Online Marketing | Free USA Business Directory | My Local Blog | Jobs Vitae

Forum Rules FAQ's & Help

If you're here to spam, then expect a ban Copy & Paste monkeys - we're watching you!

mulitple backups.
Local usb HD + duplicate to USB key (so I can carry them in my pocket) + cloud storage.

__________________
JobsVitae.co.uk - CV Builder - Jobs Blog

you trust business data to a 3rd party Clown sorry Cloud outfit?

__________________
cheers
Steve

Online Marketing | Free USA Business Directory | My Local Blog | Jobs Vitae

Forum Rules FAQ's & Help

If you're here to spam, then expect a ban Copy & Paste monkeys - we're watching you!

Yep.
They are called Google you may have heard of them. >;OP

__________________
JobsVitae.co.uk - CV Builder - Jobs Blog

__________________
cheers
Steve

Online Marketing | Free USA Business Directory | My Local Blog | Jobs Vitae

Forum Rules FAQ's & Help

If you're here to spam, then expect a ban Copy & Paste monkeys - we're watching you!

Did the sprogg keep you awake again last night ya stroppy get.

__________________
JobsVitae.co.uk - CV Builder - Jobs Blog

ohhhhhh somebodys over tired lmao.

__________________
www.fitz2kleen.com

Yeah Steve at least with Stavros we know he is ALWAYS p*****d off!

Love ya really Stav's

__________________
Web Design Portfolio | Social Media beats SEO