Importance Of Backups
Please think for a moment, if you were to lose all the data on your computer system, what sort of problems would occur ?

• Could your business continue to operate ?
• Could you recreate yesterdays work without access to your computer data ?
• How much would it cost you to recover this data manually ?
• How much business would you lose as a result this loss ?

For these reasons alone, any organisation that uses IT should ensure they have a good backup regime.

Backups could be considered as data insurance, Insurance policies traditionally protect your home, Your Business, Car, and Family from financial disaster.
As with traditional insurance policies, data backups protect the information stored on your computer systems against accidental or malicious damage and loss. Insurance only becomes “interesting” when a problem has occurred.
In the same way as insurance policies, backups are generally seen as low priority until the moment when your need them.

At Onsite I.T we hope you never have a need to use your backup, but we know that backups can sometimes be the saviour of a business following an unforeseen event such as Fire / Flood / Accidental or Malicious damage or even hardware failure.

As part of our review we will provide you with a short report detailing the current status of your backups and list actions that should be taken.

A few of the things we review are :

• Overall Backup Policy
• Backup Media Type
• Backup Content
• Backup Size
• Backup Run Time
• Frequency of Backups
• Data Retention
• Contingency Planning