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What to Know About Data Backups (Get Started Today)

What to Know About Data Backups (Get Started Today)

March 5, 2025

Your business needs to consider business continuity if it wants to outlast the competition, and to do so, you need a data backup plan. Let’s look at some steps you can take today to protect your small business from potentially disastrous situations.

Step 1: What Do You Need for Business Continuity?

With a great backup system in place, you’ll be able to approach business in a much more certain way.

Part of this process is ensuring you have the right tools in place. But before we get that far, ask yourself, what level of risk you face from ransomware and other threats, as well as how these threats impact your business, what amount of data you’d be comfortable losing, and how fast you would get back to business following a disaster.

Depending on your answers, you’ll take a different approach to data backup preparations.

Step 2: Implement Data Backup Best Practices

Once you’ve figured out the details for what you’re trying to accomplish, you can implement your data backup solution. We recommend you follow the 3-2-1 rule, which involves having three copies of your data, in at least two locations, with at least one of them being in the cloud. This will let your business access data, keep backups up to date, and isolate them from potential threats.

Step 3: Make Sure Your Backups are Safe

You can take other measures to protect your backups, too.

We recommend that you implement encryption so that no outside parties can read the data if they happen to steal it. Furthermore, you’ll need to protect any endpoints, as they are entry points as well. You should store your data centrally rather than distributed across your network, as it’s easier to protect it all that way.

Finally, it’s crucial that you test your backups to make sure they are reliable. If you don’t, you could end up in a situation where your data backups are corrupted, and trust us when we say you don’t want to be blindsided by that.

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If you’re worried about data backup, we’ve got you covered. Get started today by calling us at (571) 470-5594.

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