There are several ways to make backups. One of them is to create a system image. System images create a copy of the hard disk at the time it was made. Once we have made it, we can save it wherever we want, and in the future, if necessary, use it to restore the system to the point where we made that image.
On the other hand, we have the automatic backups, in our opinion a much better system for making a backup of our files for a variety of reasons. Let’s look at some advantages of making automated backups versus simply making a system image every so often.
Why make backups
The system image is useful for some purposes: for example, when we are going to change our computer, or we plan to format it, and we want in the future to recover the information as we had it on our hard disk before formatting.
However, this can only benefit you at specific times in the life of a computer, not as a protection system that performs automatic backups in order to protect you from unexpected problems.
The big mistake of those who start making backups is that they think that computer incidences that lead to the loss of files always happen with prior notice. This is absolutely false. When a computer crashes, and the only way to fix it is to format it, it usually happens suddenly; if you had not made a backup, it will be much more complex to recover the information from the hard disk, if it is possible at all.
Therefore, we recommend using only the system image for specific cases. If what you want is that the daily work of your company is saved and can be easily recovered in case of incident, what you need is to make backups in the cloud, isolated, encrypted and easy to recover at the desired time.
With the image of the system, you will also make a copy of the entire hard disk This is not necessarily good for you, because a lot of the data you copy will be repeated. Therefore, it is better to have a system in which new data is copied, so that we do not make dozens of unnecessary redundancies that will only subtract space.
I hope this article encourages you to make efficient backups for your business. It is too high a risk to lose customer jobs because of a computer problem. Don’t gamble with it.