Taking Precautions
IT support companies in Milwaukee are often going to recommend a strategic approach to backing up your data. You need to know what is what and where it is stored. You need to know the best way to back things up, and what kind of redundant solutions are available to you. In a word, you need to be strategic about the whole thing.
As your operations grow, you’ll likely want to incorporate proper fail-safe solutions. Additionally, you’ll want to maintain continual cognizance of your position in the market, as well as technological innovations as they come. When new technology develops, new conveniences arise, and new vulnerabilities appear. Additionally, older technology becomes more vulnerable. An older encryption is easier to crack because it is designed to thwart anachronistic computing power. But computational profundity exponentially expands, meaning what once was unassailable becomes commonplace. A good way to get around it is to allow an MSP to help you properly identify vulnerabilities, as well as helping you to establish the most secure data protection protocols. Several tips include:
- Prior backup readiness
- Completing backup
- Post-backup considerations
Prior Backup Readiness
IT support companies in Milwaukee can help you run through a checklist which will tell you what you need to have backed up, where to acquire files, how to sequence the backup, how to properly categorize it, and all the other things involved in the process. And it is a rather involved process. Several aspects include:
- Identification of all files and file families
- Current backup paradigms identification and processing
- Whether any off-site backups are in use
- Theft prevention measures (remote wiping of mobile devices, etc.)
- Access privileges
- Which systems are most critical
- Inventory of that which must be backed up
- Deletion of unwanted, duplicated, or otherwise unnecessary files/data
- De-fragmentation of hard drives
- Printed files containing important access information
- Virus scanning to ensure no malware is backed up
Completing the Backup
This is an involved process as well. Though you could do it solo, it’s better to have someone with prior experience help. Once you’ve properly backed up all your information, you can get things into a mode of continuous backup, or at least interval backups, which make the process less complicated in the future. Basically, you want to figure out all the devices that need to be preserved. Desktops, laptops, hard drives, thumb drives, mobile devices, servers, IoT devices with certain preset preferences, legacy data that’s been kept on multiple machines, etc.— everything you identified in preparation must be backed up. Additionally, you need to determine if you want basic backup solutions or not; there are many options worth asking an MSP about.
Post-Backup Considerations
After a backup, you want to do a total restore of operations, ensure that systems remain backed up redundantly by some off-site solution, and continuously scan for viruses to ensure they don’t return or manifest.
Ensuring the Most Effective Backup for Your Business
IT support in Milwaukee through Risetech Partners can help you identify proper backup needs and enact best-practice protocols before, during, and after backup. We also offer a suite of technology solutions including security, monitoring, and other areas of support. Contact us for comprehensive technology solutions.