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6 StorageSync User’s Guide
More than 109,000 Terabytes of PC data are not being regularly backed up.
PC Backup and Higher Prioritization for the Enterprise and Consumer
As much as 60% of corporate data resides unprotected on PC desktops and laptops.
Business Continuity in 2002: It's Not Business as Usual
Survey finds PCs infected are increasing at a rate of more than 10% each month.
ICSA Labs, 2002
6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year.
Pepperdine University Study, 1999
Developing a Backup Strategy
Backing up data is similar to insurance: you hope you never need either one. However, when
the day comes that you do need it, you’ll be glad you have it. For this reason,
data backup s
should not be taken lightly. On the contrary, we recommend that you create and adopt a
strategy for backing up your data.
The following guidelines will help you develop a plan that suits your backup needs.
Determining the importance of data can help you determine if you need to back it up, as
well as when and how often it should be backed up. For critical data, you may want
redundant backup sets that extend back for several backup periods. Less important data
usually does not need an elaborate backup plan, though you should back up this data
regularly.
Get into the habit of backing up data on a regular basis. How often you back up data is
based on how critical the data is and how frequently it changes. The important factor to
consider is to incorporate it into your routine. For convenience, StorageSync provides a
Reminder feature that reminds you to back up your data (see Appendix B for more
information).
The frequency of change can help you determine how often data should be backed up.
Data that changes every day, for example, should be backed up daily. Similarly, if certain
files do not change on a regular basis, it may be sufficient to back them up just one time.
Scheduling backups when system use is as low as possible speeds the backup process.
However, you can't always schedule backups for off-peak hours. So you'll need to
carefully plan when key system data is backed up.
Get most or all of your data on a single target media. If the data to be backed up cannot fit
on a single target media, use StorageSync’s Compression feature to squeeze as much
backup data as possible into the least amount of space on the target media (see
“Compression Type” and “Compression Quality” on page 74
for more information).