Is Your Backup Setup Properly?
Owen Williams
The award winning IT support company you won't have to call - Founder and Director of West View IT based in Mid-Suffolk
If you have ever lost your business’s data, you know that it is a nightmare. Even if it was only temporary. You may think that you are safe because you have a backup in place, but this is not always the case.
What is a backup? Data backup tools create copies of your data and store them in a safe place. This is so that if something goes wrong, recovery tools with be able to use these copies to restore your files.
However, a new report shows that some backup tools are not always as reliable as they should be. Did you know, a third of all data losses are caused by backup-related issues? When people try to recover their data, they discover that it has been lost or corrupted.
However, corrupted backups is not the only thing that you should be aware of.
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Ransomware is one of, if not the biggest threat to businesses right now. You might have heard us talk about it before. It is a type of malicious software (malware) that locks you out of your files unless you pay a ransom to regain access.
A report found that half of businesses using backup tools still ended up paying ransoms to retrieve their files as it was faster than trying to use their own recovery tools! Worse than that, only a small number of businesses that paid these ransoms were unable to fully recover their data!
You might be wondering how this happens if backup tools are supposed to keep you safe. Often this is because they haven’t been set up properly, and even when they are, they still need to be verified regularly to make sure they are backing up your files. Furthermore, older backup and recovery tools cannot always keep up with todays sophisticated cyber attacks.
Setting up and maintaining a reliable backup system can be fairly complex so we would recommend getting your IT support partner to do this. If you don’t have an IT support partner, get in touch today!