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Developing A Sound Backup Plan

You don't have to get elaborate or complex in developing your backup plan. Your plan should be as detailed as you need it to be in order to ensure that all your data is protected. If your business uses more than one or two computers, you may want to make your plan more formal and in some detail. If, on the other hand, you are working at your own home business on a single machine, a simple outline may do you fine. The important thing is to make sure to include enough detail in your plan so that you or whoever is responsible for maintaining your backups can understand and follow it.

No matter how simple or detailed you make your backup plan, it should at least answer the following questions:

1. What files do I need to backup?
2. How often do I need to backup these files?
3. When to back them up?
4. What type of backup device will I use?
5. Who will be responsible for doing the backups?
6. Where will I store the backups?
7. How often should the backups be tested?
8. What procedure will I use to recover lost data?

If your plan answers all of these questions in enough detail for you to understand it and follow it, then you should have a plan that will protect your data.        E-mail this article

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