Protecting your data

Think about this – how long could your company survive if you lost all of your data? The answer of course is – not very long. It is critical to have a structured plan to know that your data is safe if a disaster was to strike. In relation to disaster recovery for your data there are many options available. The key is to have a backup plan in place for your data and an offsite duplication process.

Consider what data you need to protect from email to financial software to shared documents and research the best method of backing them up. Also consider the availability of your data when recovery is needed. This includes Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives. For example, if you take overnight backups, the recovery point objective will often be the end of the previous day's activity.

Recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) are perhaps the most important key metrics when putting together a disaster recovery solution. An RTO is the amount of time it takes to recover from a disaster event, and an RPO is the amount of data, measured in time, that you can lose from that same event.


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