People and companies depend on data. If you, as a human,
need food, water, and air to survive, businesses need data to thrive. About 40%
of firms that don’t’ have the appropriate backup or disaster recovery strategy
won’t be able to survive a disaster.
Every firm should assign a backup administrator to take care
of the whole backup strategy, including backup tools and solutions; the backup
schedule, scope, as well as infrastructure; the storage and the network, the recovery
point objectives (RPOs), the recovery time objectives (RTOs), and so on. It’s
crucial for your company to have a backup plan and solution in place if you don’t
want to be a statistic.
What do you need to backup and have a disaster recovery plan?
The main task of a backup administrator is to understand,
determine, and manage that data that needs to be backup and protect. To lower
the possibility of data loss, you need to backup your applications, operating
systems, and configuration – in short, all that you can backup. If you’re using
virtualization, you have to back up your management console and the hosts, aside
from the virtual machines. If you’re using an IaaS or cloud infrastructure as a
service, you have to include that too in the scope. You must also consider the
mobile devices. If you don't know anything about it, you can always get a disaster recovery service.
Don’t forget to check the scope of your backup whenever you
make changes to the infrastructure. New services, solutions, and devices use
data. Your goal is to back up everything and to backup regularly.
When picking out a backup solution, make sure that you
protect everything. If not, there could be some data that’s not protected and
you may have to use different backup solutions.
RPO and RTO – Data Backup
When you have finally determined the scope of the backups,
what you need to do next is to know how often you have to backup and what the
schedule should be. Your employees and executives will always be changing data
and in case of a disaster, the data made from the most recent backup to the
time of failure will be lost. This specific period is referred to as the
Recovery Point Objective or RPO – it is the maximum period that you can afford
to lose data on the systems due to a disaster or unexpected event.
If the RPO is shorter then less data is lost but it needs
more backups, storage capacity, network resources, and computing resources for
the backup to work. Having a longer RPO may be more cost effective but you have
to risk losing more data when an event happens.
The Recovery Time Objective or RTO is another crucial variable
that needs to be considered. How fast you could recover from the time the
disaster happens to the period you return to the normal operations. If the
systems are down, your business will lose money and you have to recover as fast
as you can in order to minimize your losses. But, just like the RPO, you need
faster storage, technology, and networks for a shorter RTO. But all these mean
you will have to pay more. For many organizations and businesses, a few hours
of RTO is acceptable.
Data Backup Solutions
Hardware appliances – these include storage such as a 19
inch rack mounted equipment that you have to install and link to a network.
Software solutions – installed on the systems and deal with
the backup process.
Cloud services – you will find several IT support Columbia SC providers
that offer backup as a service, which allows you to provide and run your
backups using the service provider or the vendor’s cloud infrastructure through
the installation of lightweight agents on the machines.
Hybrid data backup solutions – gives you the freedom to
install or use it as a cloud service.
Backup Storage
A copy of the data will be stored in the backup storage and
you should have it provisioned, selected, and always handy for a successful
recovery and backup.
The survival of your business depends on the survival of your data. Call SpartanTec, Inc. now and learn how to implement the most reliable and effective data backup strategy for your business.
SpartanTec, Inc.
Columbia, SC 29201
(803) 408-7166
http://manageditservicescolumbia.com/
Serving: Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Wilmington, Fayetteville, Florence
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