The Seven Golden Rules Of Data Backups

Written by Keith Edmunds


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Title: The Seven Golden Rules Of Data Backups Author: Keith Edmunds Email: keith@midnighthax.com Word count: 608 Word wrap: 55 characters Copyright: Keith Edmunds. All rights reserved.

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The Seven Golden Rules Of Data Backups

Backups of company data are carried out for two main reasons. The first is to cater for those times when a document is inadvertently deleted or damaged and you wish to recoverrepparttar 104992 original document;repparttar 104993 second is as part of a disaster recovery plan in case something catastrophic happens to your computers (e.g., victims of a fire or theft).

Backups cost time, money and effort to implement, and they are of no value right up untilrepparttar 104994 time you need them. This means they tend to be given a low priority, but ultimately they may easily representrepparttar 104995 difference between your business surviving and failing. In this TipSheet, we look atrepparttar 104996 most common mistakes businesses make with backups.

1. Backup often

Re-entering data is tedious and frustrating. Backing up your company data once a week means thatrepparttar 104997 most you should ever have to re-input is one week's worth Backing up your company data once a day meansrepparttar 104998 most you should ever have to re-input is one day's worth. Frequent backups lessenrepparttar 104999 impact of data loss.

2. Don't keep any volatile data on desktop PCs

In many organisations, documents are kept onrepparttar 105000 hard drive of desktop PCs. It is unlikely that this is backed up regularly, if at all. A PC can easily be replaced: last week's quotations may not be so easy to replace. In particular, check that email is not stored onrepparttar 105001 local hard drive (this is very common in small to medium size businesses). All documents, spreadsheets, email, etc should be kept on a central server, which is in turn backed up regularly.

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Some business owners may be ofrepparttar 104994 mindset: "I think we'll wait to launch a publicity campaign until after January 1st." The problem is -- if you wait to launch your publicity campaign untilrepparttar 104995 first ofrepparttar 104996 year hoping for a quick media interest blast in January, you may be in for a quiet month. Keep in mind most media outlets have editorial lead-times of a few weeks to 6 months. Also what some entrepreneurs don't realize is this. Because ofrepparttar 104997 increasing number of publicity pitches media outlets receive, anything you send out is subjected to what I callrepparttar 104998 "media digestion period" - simply put - that is a period of time (sometimes weeks, sometimes months) that it takes media outlets to:

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