Protect Your Precious Data
Posted by Spaycial on May 21, 2009
Data really is precious for anyone who runs a business. This might include current project files, past and present customer information, marketing data, and of course your business’s financial information. If this were lost, YOU would be lost without it. How long would it take you to get your business back up and running again like it was before you lost the data?
So you can see why data ought to be the biggest thing you try to protect. The best way to do this is to back up your data regularly, but also that you store your backups somewhere offsite — ideally online, on a remote server. This way, if anything happens at your office — a fire or a flood, for instance, or a burglary — your backup will be safe.
In order to back up online, you will need to find reliable FTP hosting and storage. Then you get an account, and upload your important data regularly — hopefully once a day, if you can remember. You may also be able to find an online backup service that installs a program on your computer and does it for your automatically, so that you don’t have to remember to back up your files yourself.