Backup from Home

I have seen a lot of "Working from Home" blogs and whilst they are all great and good perspectives from people that have been doing the working from gig a lot, I didn't want to follow suit with that kind of a post.

I wanted to touch on keeping your data safe whilst you are let's say forced into working possibly in a different environment and different times of the day.

I would hope that your company has that thought about backup but things might have come round very quickly and they may not have thought about data protection for endpoints in this strange time, especially if they were all hands on trying to make sure access to internal systems were or are secure for you to access and making sure you all had the relevant software to be able to connect back in over VPN to the most relevant site within the business.

Backup may have just slipped out of the focus, as it so normally does. Your data is most likely the most important thing you are carrying around on that laptop or even the desktop that the company have let you bring home. Or maybe you are using the home machine or laptop?

Some of you are going to have restrictions on being able to install new software on your machines especially if it is a company protected asset. But those that are looking to use your own desktops and laptops whilst working at home. Let's imagine this... you spend your day working on your spreadsheet, word document or some other important data and you save that and all is good but then overnight something has gone wrong and that file will not open for you any longer! What do you do?

My advice is don't even have that issue, even though we are being put in a situation where we have to work in what may feel like strange situations the one thing we can do as humans is adapt and take control of our surroundings (especially if it's our own front room) let's make sure we backup our data at any given opportunity so that we do not have that horrible sinking feeling when something will not open or it's just lost from maybe interference from other home users on the newly acquired work PC.

Veeam has an answer and it's FREE (we like free don't we!)

"The FREE standalone Veeam? Agent for Microsoft Windows provides a simple solution for backing up Windows-based desktops and laptops. With Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE, you can easily back up your computer to an external hard drive, NAS (network-attached storage) share or a Veeam Backup & Replication? repository."

If you click below you can find out some more information about the free products and it's capabilities. It is so simple to get up and running even my parents were able to install and configure it and start taking backups!

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