We at Cherry Systems, are asked daily by individual, small business and mid-size clients, “What should I do in the future so this will not happen again?” The simple and easy one word answer is BACKUP. It could be equated to another recurring question people ask, “What is the healthiest diet?” A one word answer to this one is VITAMINS. To continue the analogy of backup-vitamin, both require variety and frequency.
The three primary backup methods to consider:
- Personal backup device (external drive, Thumbdrive, One-Click-Backup-device)
- On-premise network storage media (shared drive on one of the systems, or a NAS device on the local area network)
- Remote backup service:
- Remote shared drive like Jungle disk ,
- Remote backup unmanaged like Mozy ,Carbonite,
- Remote managed backup like Barracuda Networks
The costs:
1. At least $10-20 per month if you just have pictures and music and some odds-and-ends.
2. At least $35-55 per month if you have a small business.
Be careful with relying primarily on cost to make your decision. As with other things in life, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Either solution you pick you will have to;
- Make sure you know how to do a partial restore.
- Test it at least once a year, and when you make a significant configuration change to your computing environment.
- Reassess for data growth, don’t hesitate to find a proper replacement, see all the notes which apply to your new computing environment above.
- Perform a data inventory as frequent as you can, but no less then quarterly. Compare it to the previous one. Than ask yourself why is there a difference, can you explain what could have caused the increase or decline.
Review our next post on selecting the right backup method for your situation.
Tags: backup, remote backup
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