No matter what your business field is, data is probably at the heart of it. It is therefore, crucial for your company to protect this data for the day-to-day running of your business. Backing up files can protect against accidental loss of user data, database corruption, hardware failures, and even natural disasters. What types of backup plans do you have? What is your data recovery plan? If you can’t answer these questions then you are a few keystrokes, or virus away from a catastrophe. Here is a look at the different types and kinds of backups available for your business.
There are many techniques for backing up files. The techniques you use will depend on the type of data you’re backing up, how convenient you want the recovery process to be, and more.
- Full Backups – A full backup is exactly what the name implies. It is a full copy of your entire data set. Although full backups arguably provide the best protection, most organizations only use them on a periodic basis because they are time consuming, and often require a large number of tapes or cloud storage.
- Incremental backup – Incremental backups only backup the data that has changed since the previous backup. These are less time consuming.
- Differential backups – This type is similar to an incremental backup, the difference being that while an incremental backup only includes the data that has changed since the previous backup, a differential backup contains all of the data that has changed since the last full backup.
- Daily backups – Designed to backup files using the modification date on the file itself. If a file has been modified on the same day as the backup, the file will be backed up. This technique doesn’t change the archive attributes of files.
What combination does your company need? In your backup plan you’ll probably want to perform full backups on a weekly basis and supplement this with daily, differential, or incremental backups.Talk to M&H about data backup plans that may be right for your company.
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