Web Site Disaster Recovery – Why You Should Keep Web Backups
Last week, one of our computers failed. One day it was working perfectly fine and the next day the motherboard was toast. Nothing on our end happened to cause this failure. It just happened.
Luckily, the hard drive wasn’t affected so no data loss occurred. But it really hits home when you realize how close you were to potentially losing important data.
That’s where disaster recovery planning comes into place. And it’s not just for your computer hard drive – it should, it must, be implemented for your web assets as well.
Making sure your web site is properly backed up is even more important because you usually do not have physical access to the hardware on which your site is hosted (unless you host things in house, which we’ll save for another discussion).
Servers, like personal computers, fail. And if a hard drive fails, you could lose data.
What can you do about it?
- Review your internal disaster recovery plans and policies. What steps will you take should a failure occur?
- Make sure your web host provides data backup services for your account. Ideally, you’ll have daily backups.
- Backup your local web files as well. This should tie in with your disaster recovery plan. What is the process for making sure your local computers and web files are recoverable?
- Research and become knowledgeable about new technologies. Cloud computing is the new buzzword and it has the ability to provide for data redundancy.
Disaster recovery planning is like insurance. It’s an investment of time and money, and should the worse happen, you’ll be prepared.
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