Don’t Forget the Backup!
Saturday, August 29th, 2009Small businesses say they can talk about back-up, but more often than not, it is just that – talk.
Still surprises me what some companies are to be interpreted as a safe and reliable IT, which are not. Let me give an example. One of the most important aspects of the IT back-up – backing up your valuable data at the end of each and every day.
This will ensure that should the worst happen, you are secure in knowing that your case is still to be heard, your customer details will continue to be available, and, more importantly, that your practice can continue. We are all completely dependent on IT now, so those who keep us all’support”over the paper. If you do not believe me, take a moment to unplug your server, and turn off internet connection … It suddenly became very quiet there outside.
I would like to be able to report that most if not all, of the companies I visited have adequate back-up facilities in the city. Unfortunately, this is not so. Some of our customers (before listening to us, I encourage to add), is a sort of back-up in the city – something that has been assigned to do a once a week, often Friday afternoon when everyone is ready to go home for the weekend, and was is something that was almost always forgotten. This was usually the concept of Never mind, I can not remember what I updated the file, so if worst come worst, that would’t take long to redo it.
Do you have any idea how much time that would take? Should remember that everything you have done since your last back-up? Right up to the last e-mail sent, and the updated file? Certainly Sun
One of the most important, if not the most important thing you need to have good, solid information system is a complete and tested back-up system.