Most small business owners don’t understand the difference between backup and disaster recovery. Backup is copying your files to another disk. This can be through a tape backup, a secondary computer, or a cloud hosted backup solution. Backup protects your data in case of theft, employee accidents deletion of an important file, or a technical issues such as a crashed hard drive. You can then access a copy of your data and restore it easily. Disaster recovery is similar to backup but is used for larger instances. A complete image of your disk drives and servers are mirrored. The image allows you to restore the system quicker than reinstalling an OS and copying files. A disaster can be your entire network crashes and your employees can no longer work for the day (or longer). With a disaster recovery plan, your employees can continue to work by using the mirrored system. While a backup is important, your company should upgrade to a disaster recovery plan to insure full protection. The first step is storing your backups off-site. You can do this through a cloud hosted backup or by storing your secondary copies in another location away from your servers. We recommend using a cloud backup system as it is the most reliable solution and easy to access. It has been reported by Gartner that 50% of all tape backups fail to restore. In the case of a disaster time is critical. Therefore, the major advantage of a disaster recovery plan is that it images your disk drives and servers b…/b
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