It’s no secret that technology has made our lives immeasurably easier. Computers have revolutionized the way we live and conduct business. They help us interact with customers, store financial information, sales leads, legal documents and more. But what happens to all this data when the unexpected happens? Do you know how to save data after a natural disaster?
Storage Traps to Avoid
Having your data stored in your office so that it’s always on hand makes running a business more convenient. But computer and electrical equipment are extremely sensitive to water, heat, and other hazards brought about by nature, as are your paper records. Once damaged, recovering anything from them can be difficult or even impossible. Worse, if all of your data is stored locally, whether in devices or filing cabinets, it’s all vulnerable to the same threats.
Natural disasters such as flood, fire, earthquakes, and more are impossible to predict or prevent. And if all of your data is stored in one location at the time of the disaster, you risk losing it all without any means to recover it. This makes storing your data on multiple devices, and in multiple locations, critical.
While creating digital backups of important data is the obvious solution to prevent loss, it needs to be stored off-site in order to protect it from the same threats the affect your workplace. It’s much easier and less expensive to have an off-site data backup plan in place than to try to retrieve data from damaged hardware — which is never guaranteed to work.
Having off-site storage doesn’t mean added downtime in restoring your data when your computers and other on-site storage devices go belly-up. In fact, with the right off-site storage solution, restoring data to a new device can minimize downtime and get your company back up and running more quickly.
Impossible to Prevent, Easy to Plan For
The best way to safeguard your data from natural disasters and create painless and speedy data restore options is with a cloud backup solution. Cloud backup solutions store your data in off-site servers housed in secure facilities and connected to the cloud. This keeps your data safe from threats, and allows you to restore your data to a new device at any time via your internet connection.
It’s important that you choose a cloud backup provider that has secure data centers — your backups are only as secure as their data centers. Some features to look for in a secure data center that will keep your data safe from natural disasters, power outages, and more include:
- Data is stored in multiple data centers throughout the world. If disaster strikes one location, this redundancy allows you to fall back on another location to retrieve your data
- Facilities, hardware and procedures are engineered to meet or exceed industry regulations to ensure that your data gets the best protection possible.
- Uninterruptible power supplies, diesel backup power generators, redundant cooling and multiple redundant gigabit internet connections to protect against all types of weather related disasters.
- It’s also beneficial to the security of your data that your backup provider also consider human threats at a data center level, along with threats from natural disaster. These provisions include: alarms, armed guards, video surveillance, gated perimeter, locked server cabinets, security checkpoints with biometric scanners
With these thorough security measures in place, your data will always be available despite any natural disaster that strikes your office or data center. Your files can be restored from their backups almost instantly to new devices so you can get back to work instead of wasting time trying to get everything back into place.
As much as you might like to, no one can prevent a natural disaster from happening. The best you can do is prepare for the worst to ensure your business can get back to work as soon as possible. The bottomline is that local backups are inadequate when it comes to events like flood and fire. Cloud backup is the only way to completely prevent data loss during and after a natural disaster.
Don’t waste time waiting for a natural disaster to strike. Prepare your data now by investing in the only foolproof way to save and recover your data — cloud backup. Nordic Backup is equipped with robust cloud backup solutions and stores all of its data in data storage centers with top of the line security and natural disaster preparedness safeguards. Ensure your data is safe and easily retrieved when you need it. Find a cloud backup plan for your business today.
