![]() Additionally, depending on your commitment to holding onto your data (so, for business, you might have a 6 year or 12-month retention policy) there are ways to make economies in between the stages. The cost of a 2-stage backup (i.e having 2 backups of your data) operation can be measured by the amount of data you/your company produces on a daily basis. How Expensive is a 2-Stage Backup and Do I need it? Below is a video that breaks down a number of different Backup and Redundancy methods inside a single NAS system: If the NAS server or RAID enabled DAS box does, then there is a very high chance that your data cannot be recovered via these methods (not impossible, just touch and certainly not foolproof). Think of RAID/Snapshots/Versioning as ‘safety nets’, The only work from INSIDE the infrastructure NOT outside of it. These are NOT backup methods and are actually designed primarily as a means of recovering your data in the event of an HDD/SSD dying, an accidentally deleted file or rolling a file back to a previous revision. Way, WAY too many NAS (network-attached storage) or DAS (direct-attached storage) owners think their data actually have a backup layer in place when they refer to their RAID configuration, their versioning or their snapshots. Backup and Redundancy – DO NOT GET THEM MIXED UP! Today I want to focus on the 2nd and 3rd stages of your backup routine and help you decide the best ways to spend your budget on the most effective safety net and recovery system for your needs. Stages 2 and 3 should be encrypted in case they are stolen/entered, as well as feature login credentials and an admin system in the event of them being occupied/accessed illegally. This can range from another NAS, to a cloud provider and even a USB drive) Off-site/different location Backup (where the copy of the on-site backup lives that is separate network and/or physical location.On-site Backup solution (where multiple devices are backup’ed up to internally, also more commonly referred to as the bare-metal backup).Primary Data (Where data is initially created/collected, the PCs, the Macs, the Phones, etc).Take a moment and think how much it would cost your business right now if you lost your data – hundreds? Thousands? Close the business? The ideal backup solution should always be based on the cost of loss, not gain! Although a little trite, it is still a reliable rule of thumb to have a 3-2-1 backup solution operation that looks like this: Your personal media (family, events, memories), your client’s data or perhaps your surveillance data. ![]() No, you have to think about how much will this data cost you to LOSE. If you think like that, you will never move past stage one. So ultimate you have to stop thinking about this only in terms of how much this storage is going to cost. Sadly this is true, because not only do you put yourself at risk of complete critical loss in the event of fire or flooding, but also in the case of theft you end up having all your eggs in one basket and making the thieves lives much easier. Worse still if you have all the machines in your home or office backing up to a device in that same location, almost all data safety and storage experts will scream to high heaven that this is still not enough. You are spending all this money on what can be described as a remarkably large insurance policy. You will spend hundreds, if not thousands of pounds on storage, then you find out that you need to have it in ANOTHER location too (as otherwise, it isn’t truly a backup) and then worse still it isn’t even being spent on making more space, but actually to duplicate your old data and not be used. Centralized backup is a very unappealing idea. It is all too easy to rely on your data living on multiple machines in your office or home. ![]() If you found this article thanks to a rather perceptive google search, then clearly you think data is very important too. That should not come as a staggering fact. I know it is not going to be shocking news when I say that Data is really, really important. 14.2 Related What is the Best Way to Backup Your Data Every Day? ![]()
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