Individuals are increasingly understanding the value of their data, and that is a good thing. Unfortunately, a lot of small and medium-sized businesses are operating today without any type of data backup protecting their data, and that is bad. Implementing the 3-2-1 data backup rule is crucial to prevent loss and secure your operations. It is important that if you don’t have a dedicated data backup and recovery strategy in place, that you work to fix that immediately.
Keeping Redundant
Typically, you don’t want processes to be redundant. But when it comes to your business’ data, you absolutely do. Losing your data or control of it can put your business in peril. Redundancy means that you have your systems backed up and ready to restore should something terrible happen.
The 3-2-1 Rule Spells R-e-d-u-n-d-a-n-c-y
One of the best ways to ensure that your business has built a proper level of redundancy is by using the 3-2-1 rule. This is a guideline that every business should adhere to. Essentially it means keeping (at least) three copies of your data. Two are stored onsite and one is stored offsite.
Our clients have their working copy, which is the data they use every day; then they have an onsite backup, which is stored in a specially designed Network Attached Storage (NAS) device called a BDR; and finally, they have their offsite storage, which is uploaded to offsite storage in the cloud. The redundancy built effectively ensures that whatever happens to your business, you will have a way to restore your data.
The BDR takes incremental backups as you work, updating every hour, or as often as every 15 minutes. This gives you an up-to-date copy of your data that’s ready to restore anytime, no matter the situation. Protecting your data is as simple as finding the right solution and it doesn’t get much simpler than our BDR service.
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