Data Backup

Survey shows an alarming 49% of small companies fail to backup their data on a daily basis. This is despite the fact that nearly half of the survey’s respondents experienced data loss in their workplace in the past two years and 37% felt that data loss could have a significant impact on their business.

F-Secure has launched its Online Backup service that seeks to take away the worry of losing valuable files.

The only thing worse than losing data is discovering that your backups don't work in the first place. These four tips will help you verify that your backups are indeed up to snuff.

As the majority of data is now being stored in electronic format, Kroll Ontrack has seen an exponential increase in recovery requests in the last 20 years. Here are some suggestions from Kroll Ontrack that may help minimize the chance of backup failure/data disaster.

Determining how and where to back up your data partly involves understanding how much data changes in a given period, your recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) requirements, and applicable threat risks.