Data Backup & Protection
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Above all, the human risk factor accounts for a large proportion of lost and destroyed data. This often disappears due to accidental deletion or a lack of knowledge. Common reasons for data loss increasingly include malware of all kinds. The list of reasons for losing important data goes on:
Ransomware such as viruses, Trojans and other malware (e.g. encryption Trojans)
Errors within an application and its operation
External influences (lightning strike, flooding, burst pipes, theft, fire) in the data centre, colocation facility or even at the public cloud provider
Faulty vendor updates
A surprisingly high number of risk factors!
Data protection through regular backups
The creation of regular backups is therefore an essential foundation for sound risk management. This ensures that files and services can be restored in an emergency. Whether you only want to back up parts of a service, restore an entire (physical) server, secure Microsoft 365 user data or your cloud workloads: a proper backup and recovery concept is an absolutely essential component within your infrastructure. Regular recovery tests in conjunction with sustainable and up-to-date documentation for the responsible administrators are definitely necessary to enable the smooth restoration of files and services. As a complement to this, we recommend developing disaster recovery scenarios and recording and documenting these in an action plan. This enables the responsible colleagues to carry out routine tasks based on the pre-prepared and up-to-date plan, even under difficult working conditions.
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Tailored disaster recovery concepts with professional support
- Although many companies already have high-quality backup systems and infrastructures, they neglect the documentation and optimisation of the entire backup system . However, in the event of a recovery, this leads to uncertainty as to which services and data are backed up where and how, and above all how they need to be restored. Key information includes in particular:
- The exact data backup process
- The separation between the backup environment and the live system
- The measures to be taken in the event of a disaster
This information must be recorded in a disaster recovery concept. Well-formulated and printed step-by-step guides are ideal for this.
A proper permissions concept for backups and restorations (self-service for the client, IT staff or external service providers) ensures rapid backups and reliable restoration of any kind of data.
Data classification in conjunction with the associated retention policies, as well as a list of priorities for particularly time-critical data and systems (based on the data classification), leads to an orderly restoration of critical services. For example, it makes more sense to prioritise the restoration of the email system and the ERP system in order to resume day-to-day business quickly. Only after that does restoring archive systems make sense. Of course, you can also prioritise other elements critical to daily operations – keyword Business Continuity Management.
What is a backup?
A backup is a comprehensive data backup to external storage media. In this process, you systematically save files at regular intervals as a backup copy so that you can use them again in the event of data loss. A backup is therefore an essential step in a seamless data security strategy. Here, it does not matter whether it involves Microsoft 365, Azure workloads, on-premises servers or virtual workloads.
There are various options available for a backup:
Traditional backup of on-premises systems in-house
(e.g. physically separated area or backup copy offsite)
Backup of cloud workloads via cloud backup services
(Data backup and restoration of cloud services from the cloud to the cloud)
Backup of hybrid infrastructures, on-premises applications and services in the cloud
(Hybrid infrastructures require hybrid, flexible and well-thought-out backup scenarios)
Cloud-native backup of cloud services such as Microsoft 365
(Data backup of Microsoft 365 services such as Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams to the cloud)
Data backup strategy: 12-point plan
Data backup strategy: 12-point plan
The data backup strategy as part of the backup documentation includes organisational as well as technical points:
How is data currently backed up?
Which workloads need to be backed up on which platform?
Is the backup environment separated from the live environment?
Who is responsible for the backup and, above all, maintenance and documentation?
Are there existing recovery test cycles and scenarios?
Which backup solution(s) best suit our infrastructure?
Which backup solution(s) best suit our infrastructure?
Which disaster scenarios do we want to protect ourselves against outside of normal operations?
Definition of emergency plans with action plans.
Documentation of the backup and recovery infrastructure.
Is there an offsite backup?
Can I continue to operate my services even if the local data centre is lost?
Modern infrastructures require modern backup concepts; periodically reviewing the current concept makes sense in order to stay on top of things and optimise.
All these points are relevant for an optimal data backup concept. In order to make the backup efficient and therefore effective, you should have this handled by professionals. Whether backup for software, services, cloud workloads, or (hybrid) on-premises systems: our specialists will be happy to advise you comprehensively on the topic of data backup strategy and answer all your questions.
Services provided by New Media Service GmbH in the field of data backup and recovery
Together with you, we carry out a review of the existing data backup strategy or backup strategy and evaluate it. We will then gladly advise you on improving your current backup implementation and actively support you in implementing the proposed adjustments.
We are also happy to perform a complete redesign of the backup and availability strategy, including product pre-selection and sizing of the required hardware and software. Naturally, we align entirely with your wishes and ideas so that the designed solution perfectly fits your needs and infrastructure.
We are also happy to conduct training courses on all aspects of backups with your administrators, as well as technical and detailed consultation meetings. We can also support you in setting up meaningful reporting on your executed backups.
Are you interested in improving your backup strategy? Or would you like to create a completely new approach to backup in your company? Contact us today! We look forward to a personal conversation.
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