Businesses need to be extremely careful about how they protect themselves, but just in case something unfortunate happens, you want to have measures in place to guarantee that your future is secure. Most companies do not realize this until it is too late. When hurricane season hits Florida, you don’t want to leave your business’s safety up to chance. To this end, data backup and disaster recovery are critical. We’ll walk you through what you need to know about implementing data backup and disaster recovery, including the best way to make it happen. A BDR can limit organizational downtime when the time comes to retrieve that backup.
First, you’ll need to know the vocabulary associated with data backup and disaster recovery. There are two primary aspects to a disaster recovery strategy: the recovery point objective (RPO) and the recovery time objective (RTO).
Recovery Point Objective
How much data does your business use in a given workweek? You might be surprised. The recovery point objective is the absolute minimum amount of operational data you can accept for getting back to a decent operational state. Small or large, your business has data that requires storing. Often, businesses will find themselves reeling from a data loss disaster, trying to recreate data that has been lost. This can cost mass amounts of time and money. Knowing where you’re aiming to be can mitigate at least half the battle. Of course, it’s up to you to determine which data is critical to the success of your organization.
Recovery Time Objective
How quickly can you restore your data and get back to work? This is the second half of data backup and disaster recovery. RTO is effectively the amount of time you have before your business becomes insolvent. The best steps against this scenario are to restore the data to some sort of device. Whether it’s a backup server or a BDR unit, this will allow your business to come back following an unpredictable disaster. The goal is to keep your RTO as low as possible, as any time your business isn’t operating even at a minimum capacity, it’s risking failure. It is estimated that one minute of downtime costs businesses an average of $5,600. With a BDR, your RTO will be smaller.
The Best Components of BDR – How a BDR Can Limit Organizational Downtime
The ideal BDR system optimizes your organization’s backup solution by hyper-focusing on the two numbers above, in addition to utilizing the three-two-one data backup rule. We recommend that your business has at least three types of data backups at any given time: two on-premise in the form of a physical restoration device and a digital one on your business’s infrastructure and one in the cloud for quick restoration when needed. If you aren’t even sure where to start with setting up a BDR system for backing up your data safety, we are here to help.
Symmetric IT Group can help your Tampa business overcome the challenges presented by the dangers your organization can’t predict. To learn more about preventative data backup and disaster recovery solutions like our BDR device, reach out to us at (813) 749-0895 and check out our business continuity page to see how we can get your business set up.
