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Key Takeaways While most established and larger companies with big IT budgets employ professional backup solutions, they still often make costly mistakes.
These include long intervals between backups, not testing backup recovery systems regularly, not being able to restore a backup to a different device quickly, keeping backups in a single location or only in a remote cloud and failing to do a cold backup.
Keeping data backed up, protected and tested is a big investment, but it is well worth it in the long run.
In my previous article, I examined five data backup mistakes that could bankrupt a startup. Now, nearly all established and larger companies with huge IT budgets will employ professional backup solutions and prevent these errors. But even these companies can still make some other mistakes in backup, which may cost them millions of dollars.
So, here are five of the most common backup mistakes that established companies make and some tips on how to avoid them.
Related: 5 Data Backup Mistakes that Could Bankrupt Your Startup (and How to Quickly Fix Them)
Mistake 1: Long intervals between backups
One of the most important steps that anyone can take to protect data is to make a backup. In case the data is stolen or lost, you can always recover it. However, even larger organizations make the mistake of not backing up their data storage in a short interval regularly. According to a recent report, 91% of all organizations back up their data, but only 26% actually do it daily.
A majority of organizations either do it once every week or once every month. A large organization can have thousands of customers, inventories and products, and accumulate terabytes of new data every week. Once a data disaster occurs, even with the backups, you will still lose data for about one week.
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