Are you aware of the risk you run when you don’t make files backups?
In this post we would like to give a series of recommendations for making backups. There are still many home and business users who happily surf the Internet without being aware of the risk of losing the files they have saved on their hard disk due to multiple causes.
Due to overconfidence, we believe that this cannot happen to us, or we only consider making backups when we have already lost files due to lack of care and foresight.
It is not a matter of whether it happens or not, but of risk.
Companies and individuals should keep in mind that what is important is not the probability that a disaster will happen and we will lose all our files.
What is important is the value of what we are storing and the risk of losing it.
- Job files that you have to deliver to your customers.
- Photos of your wedding or your trip to Africa
- Databases with thousands of contacts
- Your product inventory
- An invaluable contact book
- A lot of important things that could go wrong in a few minutes.
If you had a diamond necklace, wouldn’t you leave it in a visible place where it could easily be taken away in a careless moment?
And not so much because of the probability that it could be stolen or not; it is possible that you have never been robbed at home, that you live in a good neighborhood and that you believe that it can’t happen to you.
But we decided to keep it in a safe place because of the risk of losing it, the enormous financial and sentimental loss it would mean for you to no longer have it.
Improper backups
Along with those who neglect the importance of “create backups” There are those who are unaware that creating their backups poorly is equivalent to not having them at all.
One of your mistakes can be timing. When a problem occurs on your computer, it doesn’t happen with advance notice. It doesn’t matter if you made a copy a month ago, if it turns out that during all that time you have made many modifications to the files. You will have outdated backups, which will minimize the problem, but it will still be a mishap for your business.
Another mistake has to do with where to make backups. One day there is a fire in your office and, for whatever reason, a computer burns down and so does the external hard drive on which you kept all your backups.
“It’s just that I had the backups thinking only that one day a virus could get into my computer, it didn’t occur to me that there could be a fire and the hard drive could be damaged.”
The improbable sometimes happens. And we must be prepared for the improbable, because as we have pointed out, the question has to do with courage and placing ourselves in the worst possible situation.
And another mistake has to do with the type of backups you make. What’s the point of creating them if they’re not encrypted? You’re putting the very information you’re working so hard to protect with the greatest of your motivations within the reach of hackers.
You are prepared for fires, you are prepared for one day a virus to enter your computer and damage some of your important files, you may even make daily backups so that, regardless of when a misfortune happens, you hardly lose anything you were saving.
But we should never forget, however, that making backups that can be easily subtracted poses a danger that we should not take.
It is not a matter of soothing the conscience, but of being effective.
A company must be effective with its security systems, not simply be satisfied with patches and hot-patches that do not solve the problem in the event of a real incident.
The best way to make backups is for them to meet these four requirements:
- Daily.
- Encrypted.
- On external servers.
- Compliant with the GDPR.
- Alert system.
- Restoration facility.
If you have an SME, are self-employed or work for a company and are not doing backups If you have a backup system in place, it is time for you to start creating an effective security system and sleep soundly.