No matter what the cause, catastrophic data loss happens to the best of us, but if you have a good backup strategy in place you can recover from even the worst data loss. In today’s world business data is stored in digital format and losing data can wreck havoc on any type of business.
Let’s imagine for a moment that your company’s server crashes and you have no backup and recovery system to recover from. In reality, your employees cannot work without access to their computer files; your clients are told that your business is not operating “temporarily” so you can’t provide your service or merchandise on time, you have no proven record of how much your clients owe you and what you owe to your suppliers, your business is shut down and even if you have all your server records organized in hard copy you will not able to run your business!
IT professionals have their own cost to come out and assess the server damage (whether the technician is available to show up immediately is another story). If you find out that most of your data cannot be recovered it might cost you a couple thousand dollars to buy new hardware but your unique business data is gone forever and there is no amount of money that you can pay to retrieve your business records.
If this sounds like a nightmare, it is and it happens everyday.
One business owner describes the trauma of a data loss disaster:
“I spent the week generating new brochures and fliers for my catering business. On Friday, I shut down my machines as usual. But on Monday morning, nothing would turn on. I checked all of the plugs, unplugged all of the connections and re-connected them, but still, nothing happened. Then I knew I was in trouble. My worst nightmare came true. I always had it on my to-do list to do a backup, but I never did. As a result, I lost pretty much all of my data. Thirteen years of work was completely wiped out. Now I tell everyone: don’t say it won’t happen to you, because it will!”
Your company’s data is its asset, its value. Take a few minutes today to think about your data backup strategy, but most importantly act before a disaster happens! Not after!
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