What are the critical data that you should back up?
What are the critical data that you should automatically backup?
No one is interested in making thousands of repeated backups times and taking up space without limits. What really matters is the critical data, the data that is critical to the business, not having a saved copy of a Word file that we opened to make a quick outline of a meeting. That’s not smart backup; that’s saving disposable information that we’ll never need again.
If we want to backup, First of all, we must identify which are the critical data of our company. They may be in the form of a file on our desktop, or hosted on the server of a web application we are working with. But it is all critical data and belongs to our business. Let’s see.
Critical data to be backed up online
- Windows backup. Obviously, if we do not have a backup of our operating system, we run the risk that if the computer stops working and we must restore the system, we cannot install Windows again. All Microsoft systems allow you to make a copy of Windows.
- Website and blogs. The sales and income we obtain through the Internet depend on the web. We are talking about very critical information. If we don’t have a backup copy of the website, a small error, or the actions of a hacker entering our server, can ruin everything. The same for blogs and mobile applications; we have invested money in that. It should not be considered unimportant.
- In-house management programs. Whether we use applications in the cloud, as if we use a licensed program on our computer, we must have a backup. Losing the program, or the files or databases containing critical company information, could mean a fiscal and management catastrophe for our business.
- Product databases: catalogs and inventories, warehouse databases, present and past budgets, all that information is relevant because it can be needed again. And the consequences of it disappearing can be serious. If, for whatever reason, your product catalog is damaged, your POS will no longer function properly.
- Social networks: there are many applications related to social networks that you should have a backup copy of. For example, if you have a CRM with stored data about your customers. In addition to the fact that you must ensure their privacy, losing this information due to a computer problem would have serious strategic consequences for the company, since it is very difficult to recover.
Make sure you make an automated backup, on a different server from where the data is hosted, and above all, that it is easily accessible so that you can recover it in the shortest possible time. What other data do you consider critical in your company? What other information do you consider essential? Leave us your comment here.
