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Data Backup and Recovery

Written by: Will Atkinson

Article Overview: Data integrity and disaster recovery systems are not unique to retail, but retailers need to be sure to take advantage of a robust backup system and have a recovery plan in place.

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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