3 Ways Regular Backups Guarantee Business Continuity

How often do you run backups of your business’ data infrastructure? If the answer is “Once a day,” or even “What’s data backup?” we need to talk. In reality, regular backups—when you take multiple backups throughout the workday—are the key to staying ahead of the dangers your business will face over the course of its life.

Rapid Data Recovery

Data loss incidents are expensive, not just from a downtime perspective.

Data loss incidents can damage consumer trust, as well, since these types of situations can often bring down systems that your clients and customers depend on in their day-to-day. Worse yet is the amount of data you could lose, which is not so easily replaceable, so you need to do what you can to make sure you’re losing as little as possible. When disaster strikes, you need to be ready to respond, and that’s what regular data backups accomplish; you have an up-to-date copy of your data to restore.

With modern backup solutions that take backups as often as every fifteen minutes, you’re minimizing the amount of data lost during any disaster incident.

Protection Against Data Loss

Regular backups provide your business with a crucial layer of protection against countless data loss incidents.

Whether it’s a hardware failure, human error, overwrites, deletions, or even a cybersecurity attack, you need regular backups to help protect against it. All you have to do is restore to the most recent version of your backup and your business should be in the clear, provided you address the root cause of the issue.

Think of regular backups as a proactive mechanism to ensure your data remains safe from a variety of threats.

Maintaining Uptime

Business continuity, and all of its adjacent solutions (like data backup), should optimize for uptime and ensure your services and productivity remain consistent.

Regular backups are pivotal to reducing the length and severity of any operational disruption, which means your team can stay productive even in the face of adversity. For SMBs, an outage can lead to significant losses; for example, what would happen if a manufacturing business were brought offline? Such an event would surely lead to production delays, which means disruptions to supply chains and impacts to customers, all of whom will likely be none the happier as a result.

Regular data backups enable swift recovery, which mitigates the cascading impact that downtime has on your business, as well as other organizations and clients you work with.

Data loss can impact your business whether you like it or not, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Suffolk Computer Consultants can work with you to ensure business continuity. Learn more by calling us today at 631-905-9617.