I don’t care if you’re selling bulk widgets or providing financial information on emerging markets, if you rely on data and servers for any function of your business, backups should be the single most important item on your IT checklist.
An all-time favorite question of mine to ask business owners or IT managers, following “do you have backups”, is “how do you know your backups work”? The resounding silence and dumbfounded looks this question summons are almost a guarantee.
If you’re sporting that same look right now, here are 5 simple steps to follow that can help ensure when disaster strikes, you can strike back with a successful data recovery.
1. Perform a test recovery.
This sounds so obvious and simple, but hardly anyone actually does it. This is as simple as it sounds. Attempt to recover you data to an alternate location (don’t overwrite your production data), and test the dataset.
