9 Backup Mistakes That Can Lose All Your Business Files
Most small business owners think they have a backup. Then one day the hard drive dies, and they find out the backup stopped working eight months ago. Nobody checked. Nobody got an alert. Here are the nine mistakes we see most often, and how to fix each one. 1. Keeping the only copy on one computer One drive failure wipes out everything. Follow the 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies, 2 types of storage, 1 off-site. Good online cloud backup solutions handle the off-site part for you. 2. Backing up to a drive that sits next to the PC Fire, theft and flood take both at once. An external hard drive on the same desk is not a real backup. Cloud storage keeps a copy far away from the office. 3. Never testing a restore A backup that has never been restored is only a guess. Test one file restore every month. Test a full restore every six months. 4. Leaving the backup drive plugged in all the time Ransomware encrypts every drive it can see, including the backup one. Unplug it, or use remote data backup servi...