Backup
25/02/2014 20:11
In this article I will explain the most proper way that a company must keep backup.
First of all do not hesitate to spend money for the backup procedure and do not
think that it is waste of money.
The backup is like a life insurance that you have to pay it even if you do not use it
at all. A friendly advice from my experience, do not use the backup program of
windows because 8 to 10 times you cannot restore or backup .
There are backup devices that can use tapes or you can use network hard disks.
The company must use a hard disk or a tape for each day of the week and at
the end of each week or at the end of month a backup set of a day MUST move
outside of the office. So in case that something wrong happened to the company's
building you will always have a copy of your data. Every second month you can
replace the backup set you have at home or safe etc with a latest set.
The IT person can always use programs in order to create images of servers
or the image of virtual machine.
The Program for images that i have used is Acronis and for normal data backups
I have use Symantec Backup exec, Yosemite, Baracuda etc.
(just a recommendation and do not take it as advertising)
The backup can save you by keeping files that were deleted accidenly or overwrite
by mistake (you can use the previous versions tab in properties of a file)
or infected files by serious viruses like the keylogger.
Each company that was infected by keylogger spend from 100euros to 700euros
to unlock the files unless had a good backup to use.
Concluding this article I would like you to keep in mind what I told you in the beggining....
"Do not hesitate to spend money for the backup procedure and do not
think that is waste of money."
George Leboukas