Data Backups - Your First Step to Safeguard Your Data

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Data Backups - Your First Step to Safeguard Your
Data
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INTRODUCTION
Things go wrong. Devices fail and are subject to
accidents, cyberattacks, theft, loss, fire, and
natural disasters. If an unanticipated event
occurred that rendered your device unusable or
unavailable, what would you lose? The answer is
DATA. Maintaining one or more current backups of
your valuable data and/or entire system is a
critical security layer that can mitigate the
risks of data loss.
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BACKUPS
Backups are copies of your data and/or system
stored on a different device or in the cloud.

• What should be backed up?

• How many backups should be maintained?

• Where should backups be stored?

• Should backups be manual, scheduled, or
  incremental?

• What tool should be used to create a backup?

• How frequently should backups be done?

In this presentation you will get answers of all
these questions.
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WHAT TO BACK UP?
If you want to be able to restore a backup to
either your failed or an identical system and be
able to use it as if nothing bad happened, then
you should back up your entire system. If,
however, you just want to be able to restore your
data to a compatible system, then you should back
up your data.
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NUMBER OF BACKUPS
It is recommended to maintain two backups one
conveniently close but still safe and another far
enough away not to be compromised by the same
threat.
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WHERE TO STORE YOUR BACKUP?
For a backup to be helpful, it must still be
usable when the backed-up device is not. That
means backups should be stored in a safe place
that is physically separated from the backed-up
device. There are three ways to accomplish that
1. Store the backup on an external device, and
keep that device where a threat is very unlikely
to destroy both the original and copy,
2. Store the backup in the cloud using an online
backup service, or
3. Store backups on both.
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BACKUP FREQUENCY
Users have different thresholds of pain regarding loss of work/changes. Can you tolerate a months worth a week a day or an hour? Match your backup frequency to your threshold of pain.
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BACKUP PROCESS
You can do manual, scheduled, or incremental
backups. For manual backups, you decide when you
need to initiate a backup with appropriate
software. For a scheduled backup, you
preconfigure appropriate software with your
desired schedule, and the software then initiates
backups according to that schedule. Some
offerings implement incremental backups, and they
wake up periodically and backup only what has
changed since the last backup more efficient
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CONCLUSION
As you can see, backup plans can be complex. This
is not a one-solution-fits-all situation.
Clickaway Computer Services would be happy to
help you craft and implement a complete backup
plan that fits your needs and preferences.
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