Over the past number of days Ireland has been expericing heavy rain fall with many areas being hit with major flooding, such as Cork City. In the West the river Shannon was under alert as more rainfall was due and more flooding expected.
Thankfully in Ireland we don’t have many natural disasters such as earthquakes or fires but this is no reason not to prepare for a disaster (such as flooding) that can easily wipe out a business.
Some friendly backup advice
When dealing with computer data in a business it is always advisable to create daily backups and store them offsite. If you use tape backups then these tapes should be stored in a safe and secure location outside of your office so if anything happens to your building you at least have a safe copy of your backups. When transferring tape media offsite be aware that risks are involved in losing the tape backups.
I won’t say do not use tape backups because let’s face it, tape backups are being used all over the country and they are here to stay. Even our own customers who use our online backup solution also use tape backups, just as a precaution which is good but it’s important to note the following:
Many businesses these days create a tape backup and the media is usually left in the office, sometimes beside the office server. People simply tend to think what will happen if my server crashes? They never think of the bigger problem i.e. what will happen if my office floods or is burnt to the ground? ALWAYS think of the worst case scenario when dealing with business data, it can help save your business if disaster ever strikes.
Our online backup solution was specifically designed to be implemented as part of a disaster recovery process. Customer backups are offsite and stored in a safe and secure data centre environment located in Dublin allowing each customer easy and fast restoration of their data that may be lost due to server/computer failure.
I have been speaking to a number of our customers who have been badly affected by the flooding but as they use an offsite backup solution they have one less thing to worry about, getting their data back.
If your business has been affected by the flooding we at C Infinity wish for a fast and speedy recovery of your business operations and hopefully your data loss is at a minimum.
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