Ensuring comprehensive backups is a key ingredient of any successful business resilience programme. To do this, it is essential to use a best-in-class backup platform – but also to adopt sound policies.
To prevent backup failure, it is first vital to understand what causes it.
Here’s 5 quick wins to prevent backup failure:
Check your media is up to standard
Not to blame your tools, but ensuring your media is up to scratch is essential to ensuring successful backups. Tape and disk backups need to be regulaly maintained, and reliability should be tested. You can also follow the 3-2-1 backup rule to ensure copies of critical data are kept online and offline.
The human factor
You need to make your team experts in your chosen backup environment to avoid the potential for human error. Automated measures also allow you to limit the potential for human error.
Updates status
Ensure your backup software has any necessary updates in place, and to ensure all security configurations are optimised.
Cyber security
Cloud-based backups with two-factor authentication and protection of in-transit data. Isolated backup credentials also help to ensure backups are separated from other programmes.
Infrastructure failures
Smart backup systems regularly saves copies of your data files to the cloud. It can also help avoid infrastructure redundancies by switching to unused capacity in the event of failure.
Find out more
You can read Veeam’s 2022 Data Protection Trends Report to see how your peers are managing backup.
