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Data Backup and Recovery

Disaster Recovery and Data Backup are hot topics that mean lots of things to lots of people. At a basic level, data backup means having a safe copy of your essential business information, and disaster recovery is a plan for restoring your business using the data backup if you have a catastrophic loss such as a fire, flood, break-in, etc.

Data backup can be as simple as manually making a copy of your data to a CD or thumb drive, and it can be as sophisticated as an automated web-based service that backs up your essential data automatically to a remote secure server. There are also automated CD and tape based systems.

Disaster recovery encompasses more than just a backup. It entails building a specific plan for identifying a crisis and how to respond, including the fall-back equipment that will be used, auxiliary power sources, and steps for restoring the data and employee interfaces.

Many small retailers will struggle with implementing a true disaster recovery plan, but making sure you have a good back goes a long way to helping restore your business and reducing downtime in the event of a disaster.

If you don't have a good backup system, ideally a remote, offsite backup that runs automatically and places your data on a secure server in a different location, then you owe it to yourself and your business to get one.





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Will Atkinson
(Visit Will's Website) Will Atkinson has spent his entire career dealing directly with small retailers to solve their technology problems, especially point of sale and inventory control issues. Will manages CAP Software, a specialty POS software company dedicated to providing the finest in retail POS applications for small and medium retailers. Learn more about CAP at www.capretail.com or contact me at will@capretail.com. His expertise extends to customer service issues, usability and workflow properties, and other retail best practices. Will helps retailers understand business problems in order to provide a solution that saves time and money, commodities that are limited for everyone.

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