Data Backup for Business

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What if you suddenly lost your customer database?  

Or all the records of your store inventory?  

Your staff files?  

Or your entire corporate history?  

It happens to businesses every day. Virus attacks, ransomware that locks down your files, a theft of office computers or a fire that destroys your office area. Loss of business data can mean loss of your business – and that’s a threat you can’t afford to ignore.

Data backup for business is important.

When you have a solid and secure data backup plan working in your business, you can rest a lot easier knowing you can quickly rebuild any software programs and data lost.

Note – Simply making a copy of important files on an external drive kept at your location is not a good backup plan. That external drive could fail, be stolen, or be damaged by fire or flood at your building. 

We can help you back up images, registry files, software, operating systems and documents.

  The best data backup strategies use a 3 – 2- 1 approach. 

3  -  Make 3 copies of your data

2  -  Keep those copies in 2 separate backup options (a local hard drive and the cloud or multiple hard drives, for example)

1  -  Store at least one copy of the date in a remote location. Do not store this backup copy in the desk drawer or next to the computer that was just backed up. Get it out of the building if at all possible. For extra security, many businesses even opt to store their backups in different regions of the country.

Your plan should identify how you will back up the data, how often you want the data to be backed up, where the backup will be stored and how it will be transported to that location. For each step, a good plan identifies who will handle the backup task.

We can help you craft a data security strategy that is easy to use and keeps your data secure.

 Data backup comes in many forms.  It can be as simple as physically making a copy of an important document and storing it in a safe and distant location. For digital files, however, data backup becomes a little more complex.

Computer, tablet and phone files can be backed up to removable media like usb flash drives, dvds, cds, jump drives, pen drives, or thumb drives.  These backup devices work well to capture laptop or desktop data, but don’t hold a lot of data (typically from 128 MB to 256 GB) and are easy to lose.

External hard drives provide more capacity for backing up data, holding up to 10 TB.  They are relatively easy to use either wired or wireless and portable for storage off site.

Cloud storage offers the most capacity. Cloud storage simply refers to storing data on another highly secure computer at a remote location.  Cloud options allow for back up in encrypted format and transmission to secure remote locations via the internet. 

System image is a backup of your whole hard drive.  The process saves operating system and drivers as well as your files and programs.  

Our professional data security experts will help you determine which form of data backup works best for your business. 

Your data backup system can fail for many reasons. 

• Many data backup plans fail because they are hard to use.  
• In house backup systems may require someone to trigger them at scheduled backup times.   And when the staff person assigned this task gets busy, remembering to do a backup may fall off the To Do list.
• Computers can fail, hard drives may crash, the power may go out in the middle of a backup session.
• Unmonitored data security systems are especially at risk.  How often are you testing your system?  Do you know how many files, how many folders and how many bytes of data are backed up with each session?  Is anyone checking to make sure the backup runs correctly?

Whatever the reason for the failure, a data backup breakdown means you may not have that data when you need it most.  Don't take that chance - give us a call now to get a complete analysis of your file and image backup  system.

Call today for an analysis of your current system or help designing the backup system you know you need.

• Data Backup System Audit
• Data Backup Design
• Data Backup Components
• Data Backup System Repair
• Data Backup System Testing
• Data Backup System Monitoring
• Cloud Services for data protection

"Olympia Computer makes sure my business and personal data get backed up on a regular basis.  And I like that they don't just rely on "what the computer says" - they test the system and make sure everything is working right."

Lee S - West Olympia