Personal Backup: When is Enough, Enough?

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Backing up your data on a regular basis is one of the most crucial practices for technology users; this ensures that your important data will never be completely gone, hence you have saved it in another form or at another place for safekeeping. On a large scale, enterprises are prime examples of how to properly back up data as they have various sources of backup strategically and conveniently spread out. Their backup sources include an on-premise option, backup stored at a data center, as well as backup stored using cloud services.

But what about when it comes to backing up personal data? Does one naturally take the same precautions as they would for their professional data? Do you go to the same great lengths to ensure that you have access to your irreplaceable pictures, important documents, and even forms of identification in the case of an emergency? If you have answered “no” to these questions, then it’s time to discuss why we need to view and prioritize backing up our personal data with the same importance as our professional data. So, without further ado, let’s delve right into why backing up your personal data should be a natural part of your tech life routine.

Why You Should Backup Your Data

First things first; let’s identify why backing up personal data is important to us. In this fast-paced world where it’s easy to choose convenience over logic, we tend to only rely on one source or place to store all our personal files. Whether that place be our phone, laptop, or desktop, the mere thought of disaster striking or the idea of losing our sole source seems too far-fetched to even cross our minds at all. That is, until it actually happens to you and in an instant, you lose all your personal files such as your important school assignments, pictures, and signed contracts, with no way of retrieving of any of it back. It is at that moment, you realize that you should have spent the extra time and effort in saving your items onto at least one more place that could have prevented your upcoming hardships in trying to recover from your data loss. Don’t do this yourself!

What to Do

Now that we clearly see why it is important to have backup for your personal data, let’s talk about why it’s always good practice to have more than one backup to keep yourselves well-prepared should the unpredictable happen. A great place to start is to have at least three backups of your personal data in different forms – your hard drive such as the one on your computer or your laptop as it does not require internet to access your files; a USB device being that it is small and portable making it convenient for you to carry it around with you in addition to it not requiring internet to use either; and finally, a cloud service like VPLS’ cloud services that you can access using any device with internet that makes saving changes to your files quick, easy, and efficient; whenever you make a change to your file on the cloud server, the change would automatically update the file everywhere else the server is connected to.

Finally, we are now ready to address the question on everyone’s mind: How much backup is enough backup for your personal data? And the answer to that question is simply that, there is no such thing as “enough” backup for your personal data; in other words, the limit does not exist. It all really depends on how you feel about your data; if your files are important to you, then you would do everything in your power to ensure that you will always have a way to access your saved data and files regardless of what may happen. But if you really could not care less about your photos, school papers, electronically signed contracts, ID forms and so forth, then go ahead and continue to only save them onto just your trusty laptop and hope for the best, since clearly, you are not equipped to handle the worst…Don’t set yourself up for failure; Backup your personal data today!

How to Disaster-proof Your Data with Krypt’s Auto Backup

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You can’t afford to have vulnerability with your business-critical data these days, because it can mean that your business may be down for some costly period, or in extreme cases, it might mean that you are obliged to go out of business altogether. There are so many cyber threats which can jeopardize your important data that you really must have a backup of it all, at any given moment in time.

If your data were to be hijacked by a cyber criminal and ransomed, you would literally be at the mercy of that individual, unless you have a current backup of all your data. Any natural disaster might also corrupt or destroy your business data, leaving you with nothing to conduct business with. The only safe way to protect yourself from these scenarios and many others, is to have offsite auto backups being performed on a regular basis, ideally auto backups with Krypt.

Why Krypt?

The big advantage to using Krypt technology is its superior capability for hosting and its outstanding infrastructure. Krypt is the division of VPLS Inc. which is responsible for hosting more than five million websites globally, and for providing enterprise-class technology which many Fortune 500 companies rely on for 24×7 support and service. If these highly successful companies place their trust and their faith in Krypt technology, it should be suitable for all companies, no matter how big or how small.

Krypt has also been around since 1998, which means it has been a major player internationally for more than two decades. That has given the company executives plenty of time to figure out how to provide the very best service and technology to clients, and plenty of successes which can encourage companies everywhere to have total confidence in the Krypt process.

Krypt technology

Your data will be kept safe and secure by Krypt whether you prefer to run Cloud Servers or Bare Metal Servers, both of which will be perfect for your auto backups. Your cloud server backups will be fully managed by Krypt, and will include all the services which will help to preserve your data, and keep it available for you, so that you’ll never have to endure any period of downtime which could be costly for your business.

You will have automatic and unattended backups of your data, you can backup individual files of special importance, backups can be regularly scheduled, you’ll have the capability of onsite recovery, offsite recovery, and server recovery, you’ll have the option of creating incremental backups, and you’ll be able to replicate your entire server from a backup.

Reliability and consistency

Apart from the superior technology provided to your business with the ultra-fast and ultra-capable Krypt servers, there’s another big advantage to having your auto backups arranged for with Krypt technology. Because these servers have proven to be extremely reliable, you can count on having virtually 100% of uptime, with only a minimal chance of any kind of downtime.

That kind of reliability is priceless for business owners, because it means you can set it up and literally forget about it – until you actually need that backup data. Confidence counts for a great deal in business, because it allows you to focus on other things, like running your business effectively. Let Krypt technology manage your auto backups, so you don’t have to worry about data accessibility, even if disaster should strike.

To learn more about auto backups and other Krypt solutions, visit https://www.krypt.com/en/solutions!

The Importance of Securing Local Data

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VPLS and Veeam Combine Forces

In the effort against cybersecurity threats and data loss, VPLS and Veeam are teaming up to provide customers the best in Data Backup and Replication services.

Here are a few reasons why you will want to shield your customer’s personal and financial data through VPLS and Veeam!

Disaster Recovery

When it comes to your company’s backup and recovery needs, it’s important to secure and prepare for any event or disaster that may happen.

Hawaii Missile Alert

Hawaii Missile Alert Take for example the event in Hawaii, when an alert of an incoming missile was issued by an employee who accidentally pressed the wrong button that caused panic to spread throughout the island. While the incident was accidental, the consequences for unaccounted human error were devasting.

Bad Rabbit Malware

Bad Rabbit Malware and Ransomware

Or, when malware Bad Rabbit, targeted Ukrainian and Russian media organizations, causing entire systems to become infected with ransomware. The cybercriminals responsible for the attack demanded payment in the form of Bitcoin, racking up thousands of dollars in mere minutes.

The above examples act as solid reminders that the best solution against multitudes of cybersecurity threats are prevention and intervention. Secure your company’s future through multiple security measures and a thorough backup plan.

Veeam Backup and Replication

To tackle these and other cyber threats, companies are ensuring their local data with data recovery services offered by Veeam.

Veeam Backup and Replication offers a great solution to verify recoverability of backups, instant recovery and testable upgrades within an isolated environment before implementation can commence. All of which are offered at a reasonable cost, tailored to fit your budget.

A few features worth mentioning are:

Virtual and Physical Backup Services
Cost-effective Options (Purchase or Rental Services)
Automatic Recoverability Testing
Built-in WAN Acceleration
Unlimited Scale-out Backup Repository
One-Click Disaster Recovery
Access to Veeam Cloud Connect for fast, secure, cloud backup
Recovery and eDiscovery for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Active Directory
And much more!

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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Are Not the Same: What You Need to Know

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What is Business Continuity? Business continuity or business continuity planning is the way in which a company maintains the operations of their business in the event of the loss of resources during a small outage or complete disaster. Whether the outage lasts for two hours or six days, it has the potential to be equally devastating. It includes preventative measures that are put in place company-wide and regulates a variety of controls. Ask yourself, how will our company continue to function if an outage occurs for any reason? What location will we work from and how will our employees be able to access the materials and information they need to continue to do their jobs? How will we continue to sell products and services to our customers? How will we continue to support them? Business continuity is about mitigating risk before anything ever happens.

Best Practices for Developing an Effective Business Continuity Plan

Best practices for developing an effective business continuity plan include:

Form a team, including employees from various departments, to develop a living business continuity plan.
Obtain buy in from your executive management team to ensure this is a priority for the company.
Be proactive in identifying risks and watch for new, potential risks on a regular basis.
Understand how those risks will affect your day to day business operations, as well as specific groups including employees and customers.
Put measures in place to mitigate those risks.
Identify people and procedures needed to alert employees, customers, vendors, and other key stakeholders that a disaster has occurred.
Regularly test your procedures to ensure they can be implemented efficiently, effectively and quickly.
Examine your plan quarterly or at an interval determined by your team to review the procedures and ensure they are still current.

What is Disaster Recovery?

Disaster recovery is one critical component of the larger business continuity plan. Although it is not solely focused on IT, it is often the IT department that takes over responsibility. It becomes your backup and recovery plan—the way in which you will maintain, store, and restore your data, files, software applications, servers, and other equipment so that you are up and running again in the shortest amount of time. Ask yourself, how frequently do we currently backup our data and can the company function without critical data for any period of time? Are additional servers and other equipment readily available to us to quickly rebuild our network infrastructure? Is there another secure location within a reasonable distance of our office where we could restore our network if the current server closet or server room is no longer usable? If business continuity is about mitigating risk before anything ever happens, disaster recovery is about quickly and efficiently implementing your plans during and after the disaster has occurred.

Best Practices for Developing an Effective Disaster Recovery Plan

Best practices for developing an effective disaster recovery plan include:

Understand what impact the previously identified risks could have on your IT assets.
Decide how you will replace equipment if that should be necessary.
Know how many additional servers and other pieces of equipment you have in stock which could be installed immediately after the outage.
Implement a procedure for obtaining any new parts which you may not have in stock.
Identify the level and type of support/notifications you will provide to employees, customers, vendors and others during the outage. For example, a help desk, call tree, automated push notifications or conference bridges.
Determine your Recovery Time Objective (RTO): The target time you need to recover your IT and business activities after a disaster has struck. Knowing how quickly you can actually recover your IT infrastructure and how quickly the business needs to recover to prevent catastrophic loss, will help you decide on the preparations you need to put in place to make sure that those two numbers are in sync.
Determine your Recovery Point Objective (RPO): The window of time in which data loss is acceptable for your company. Put simply, it is the amount of time between required data backups. Could your company still operate, virtually unaffected, if you were unable to access the last three days of data? If not, you may want to consider daily backups or even real-time backup.
Decide on your recovery failover procedures and system restart procedures.
Preselect a local data center provider whose colocation or cloud services you would be able to utilize in the event that your facility is no longer usable or accessible to ensure that rapid restoration of business operations is possible.

The Key Takeaway

Many companies choose not to proactively prepare for a disaster because they believe that it will never happen to them. If they are not located in a region prone to floods, hurricanes, tornados or blizzards, they do not believe it is necessary to expend the time, resources and money to not only implement but also maintain and test a plan. Remember, a disaster can come in many different forms, not just environmental. IT hardware failures, cyber-attacks, terrorist attacks and even vandalism or simple human error can cause extensive outages over extended periods of time. Correctly defining disaster recovery and business continuity planning, understanding the specific differences of each, proactively implementing a custom plan to meet your requirements and continually testing and reevaluating your plan will help keep your business in business for many years to come