Data Backup and Recovery
The essential guide for businesses. Businesses quickly realize that any computer system can crash, anyone can make errors, and disasters happen when you least expect it. Data backup and recovery are essential parts of running a successful business.
What is Data Backup and Recovery?
Data backup and recovery is the process of backing up your data in the event of a loss and setting up secure systems that allow you to recover your data. Data backup requires the copying and archiving of computer data to make it accessible in case of data corruption or deletion. You can only recover data from an earlier time if you have backed it up. Data backup is one form of disaster recovery, making it an essential part of any sensible disaster recovery plan.
Offsite Servers vs. Independent Drives
Offsite Servers
Suitable for data recovery since they provide massive amounts of data storage at nominal prices, especially compared to the hassle it saves in case of an information disaster. Offsite servers also back up the data further onto their own drives.
Independent Drives
Terabyte drives are relatively inexpensive and plug-and-play, making data storage and recovery easy. External drives become invaluable in protecting your business data.
Cloud Backup
A data backup strategy that sends a copy of your primary data over a network to an off-site server hosted by a third-party service provider, charged based on bandwidth, capacity, or number of users.
Offsite storage provides more storage at a recurring cost while external drive storage is often a one-time charge unless the drive crashes. Which option is better depends entirely on your type of business and whether you need a short-term or long-term solution.
Cloud Backup and Recovery
Cloud backup, or online backup, is a data backup strategy that involves sending a copy of your primary data over a public or proprietary network to an off-site server. The server is typically hosted by a third-party service provider (CSP) that charges you a fee based on bandwidth, capacity, or number of users. Implementing cloud data backup may help you bolster your organization's data protection strategy without adding more workload on your IT staff.
Cloud Backup Methods
Backing up your data directly to the public cloud — writing the data directly to a cloud infrastructure provider.
Backing up your data to a service provider — writing data to a CSP offering backup services in its managed data center.
Cloud-to-cloud backup for data that lives in SaaS applications, copying your data to another cloud.
When you begin using cloud backup services, the initial backup can take days to finish uploading over the network because of the volume of data. A technique called cloud seeding allows a cloud backup vendor to send you a storage device to back up your data locally before sending the device back to the CSP. Online data backup systems run on a schedule determined by the level of service purchased, collecting, compressing, encrypting, and transferring your data automatically.
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