Hard drive backup is one of the most important things you can do
to ensure the security of your business’s information and
data. Imagine losing your computer to fire, theft, or malfunction.
If you don’t have an external hard drive backup, all of your
information is gone in an instant. Here are our reasons why having
additional copies of your data is so important.
- You don’t know what you’ve got when
it’s gone. One of the scariest parts of losing your
data is that you might not know exactly what it is that
you’ve lost. Unless you keep detailed records of everything
you do on your system, it’s quite possible that you
won’t even know something is missing until you need it, in
which case you’re empty-handed. This can have serious
consequences in the business world. Don’t let it happen to
you.
- The costs of lost data are extensive. When
your hardware is stolen, damaged, or suffers a crash, you not only
have to replace the device but if you don’t have a backup,
you also have to pay for the restoration. There are some instances
in which lost data can be restored, but this is a costly process
and is often imperfect. If you have a hard copy or other existing
records, these can be input manually back into your system, but it
will be a time-consuming effort on the part of your employees.
- You’re likely to get lackluster results for
duplicated efforts. If your employees are tasked with
duplicating their previous work that was lost, expect the second
go-round to be of lower quality than the first. Your staff is now
pressed for time because they still have the same amount of work
expected of them but fewer hours in which to complete it, and they
are unlikely to put the same level of care and concern into redoing
their work as they did when they performed the task
originally.
Avoid these serious problems by backing up a hard drive
regularly and storing your backups off-site. This advice applies to
data storage devices as well: don’t wait until you have only
a single master copy of a CD or DVD with your necessary information
on it. Get that data
duplicated immediately to reduce the likelihood of losses.