Business Continuity Planning & backups

Business continuity planning is the process of creating systems of prevention and recovery to deal with potential threats to a company. A Data Backup Regime Is a must. For adequate data protection, you need to establish a data backup system that follows these three steps:

• Backup business data regularly
• Create backups on reliable media or in the cloud
• If using media for backups keep the devices in a secure, off-site location

The basic rule for business data protection is that if losing the data will interfere with doing business, back it up. Desktop software programs can be reinstalled if required but recovering the details of transactions or business correspondence is impossible if those files are lost or damaged beyond repair.

Data Archive vs Data Backup

Backups are normally periodic, short-term images of data for disaster recovery purposes.

Archiving, meanwhile generally refers to the long-term storage of data that is no longer in regular use but can be restored if need be (for example, a finished project or data from a former client). So for us here at RaweMedia, backup is the choice we would choose for your website and its content.

But if needed we have years of knowledge when it comes to archiving your internal projects and documentation.

Backup Critical Business Data

There are two steps to successful data backup;

• Identifying the critical data that needs to be backed up
• Implementing backups of the data on a regular schedule

What needs to be in a data backup? All of the files that you’ve created and/or modified should be regularly backed up. For many businesses, this includes everything from accounting files through email. RaweMedia can help you with a specific solution to your digital support needs.