Bunbury Computer Repairs can back up all of your computer data and also restore data that may have been accidentally lost, deleted or worse a virus has taken control of your computer and you need your hard drive formatted. If your an office, small business data backup is vital, we can provide your business with the correct software and hardware to support your back up requirements and if need be, we can recover your data if a disaster should happen. We also know how devastating it is to customers who loose their data on their home computers, rest assured we can help you too in recovering your computer data.
If your computer won’t boot into Windows or Apple OSX or keeps crashing, you need to contact us immediately. You could be experiencing hard drive failure. You may lose your important files or photos, and nobody likes to hear that their files are gone forever..
Here are a few helpful tips on Back Up and Recover
Creating a Backup and Recovery Plan
Data backup is an insurance plan. Important files are accidentally deleted all the time. Mission-critical data can become corrupt. Natural disasters can leave your office in ruin. With a solid backup and recovery plan, you can recover from any of these. Without one, you’re left with nothing to fall back on.
Figuring Out a Backup Plan
It takes time to create and implement a backup and recovery plan. You’ll need to figure out what data needs to be backed up, how often the data should be backed up, and more. To help you create a plan, consider the following:
How important is the data on your systems? The importance of data can go a long way in helping you determine if you need to back it up—as well as when and how it should be backed up. For critical data, such as a database, you’ll want to have redundant backup sets that extend back for several backup periods. For less important data, such as daily user files, you won’t need such an elaborate backup plan, but you’ll need to back up the data regularly and ensure that the data can be recovered easily.
What type of information does the data contain? Data that doesn’t seem important to you may be very important to someone else. Thus, the type of information the data contains can help you determine if you need to back up the data—as well as when and how the data should be backed up.
How often does the data change? The frequency of change can affect your decision on how often the data should be backed up. For example, data that changes daily should be backed up daily.
How quickly do you need to recover the data? Time is an important factor in creating a backup plan. For critical systems, you may need to get back online swiftly. To do this, you may need to alter your backup plan.
Do you have the equipment to perform backups? You must have backup hardware to perform backups. To perform timely backups, you may need several backup devices and several sets of backup media. Backup hardware includes external hard drives, disk stations, or an automated backup service that allows the data to be backed up and sent directly online to an off site location, there are a number of companies now a days that provide this type of service.
Who will be responsible for the backup and recovery plan? Ideally, someone should be a primary contact for the organization’s backup and recovery plan. This person may also be responsible for performing the actual backup and recovery of data.
What is the best time to schedule backups? Scheduling backups when system use is as low as possible will speed the backup process. However, you can’t always schedule backups for off-peak hours. So you’ll need to carefully plan when key system data is backed up.
Do you need to store backups off-site? Storing copies of backup drives off-site is essential to recovering your systems in the case of a natural disaster. In your off-site storage location, you should also include copies of the software you may need to install to re-establish operational systems.
