Data backups and restoring - preserving your data in case of mashups.

Data backups and restoring/preserving your data.

Introduction:

Since in many instances your company's data basically is the business in a box and the loss of all or part of it would have serious ramifications for the effective functioning of the business, electronically backing up and preserving suitably up to date records of your data is imperative. In the case of data stored centrally on a server a number of basic backup solutions can be followed. There are more comprehensive solutions that cover almost every possible data loss eventuality and are offered as professional services by numerous companies. The bottom line is that your business should have a backup solution that is planned, documented, understood, tested and offers sufficient cover for the risks that may affect your data availablity eg hard drive crashes, fire, theft, malicious hacking, etc........read more