12/17/20 - backups
Undermining your backups is to undermine your business. But backing up your data is only a fraction of the big picture for a viable disaster recovery plan. Simply, the purpose of backups is to protect against hardware failures, outages, corruption, acts of nature, and user error.
What a lot of small businesses do not seem to realize is that downtime costs a lot of money. Not only are you potentially not making any income, but you are also still paying for your employees – among other things, such as a botched disaster recovery plan that is not accounted for.
But even is a redundant backup system that provides minimal downtime in the even of total failure, it is still worthless if your backups are bad. Imagine having a complete system failure, and both your onsite and offsite backups for the past 6 months are all corrupt.
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