A quick question that you should be asking yourself is: "Did I back up my data for World Backup Day."

If not, why not?

Data backup is something that we never stop talking about here at iPing. A company's data is just too important not to back up and with all the great online backup options that are out there you would have to be crazy not to have something in place. Garther says that 75% of businesses go out of business after having a major data loss when their data is not backed up.

Out of all the backup options available at present, I really really like the online backup option. It mostly takes the human element out of the backup process once it has been configured properly. You would not believe the amount of times I have gone to restore from a backup and it turned out that the person who was supposed to be changing the backup tape was not doing it any more.

Most times the excuses I hear are that the person who looked after the backup tapes left the company, or often times the person looks at me for a minute before saying, 'I was supposed to be doing that'. 

Now I do not want to give the impression that data backup day is the only day you need to back your data up. You need to have it done every day and that is why it is good to have a computer do it automatically online.

If you did back your data up last week for World Backup Day, pat yourself on the back and if you did not, well do it now. Be sure to give iPing a call on 01 5241350 if you want to have a chat about getting an online backup strategy put in place.

Regards
Mark