World Backup Day
Your Annual Reminder: Pay Attention to Your Backup.
Defend Your Data Against Any Threats!
A lot has changed in the past year. Organizations have adapted to remote and mobile workers. Companies are increasingly storing their data and applications in the cloud, while data security regulations and compliance requirements continue to evolve.
While ransomware is one of the most dangerous threats, leading to devastating data loss scenarios, it's not the only reason data can be lost. In fact, human error and hardware failure are the leading causes of corrupted or deleted files, followed by theft, natural disasters, and common accidents-like spilling a drink on your laptop.
To avoid serious damage to your business, digital memories and other important data, you need to be able to recover quickly from any of these scenarios.
In honor of this year's World Backup Day, we've compiled up-to-date information to help you develop a reliable backup strategy that will allow you to quickly recover your data and systems in the event of a disaster.
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Data Loss Can Happen to Anyone
What you do to get back up and running is the important part.
Cybercriminals have gotten creative with their methods by utilizing social engineering and AI. Ransomware has become far more widespread across the board. Did you know:
66% of global organizations were hit by ransomware in 2023.
[Sophos - The State of Ransomware 2023]
NovaBACKUP ensures that you can secure and recover your critical data, locally or in the cloud, to get your organization back to full productivity following any data loss event.
Threats like ransomware and even everyday system updates, installations, and changes are the reason that your backup must be reviewed on a regular basis. There is no better time than now to check:
- Have you verified backup restorability, and scheduled regular testing?
- Have all new applications and data sources been applied to your backup plan?
- Have you conducted a recent review of long-term data storage requirements?
- Are you following best practices to backup locally as well as to an offsite location?
A solid backup strategy is crucial to ensure you can restore your data and systems easily in the event of a disaster.
Tips for Setting Up a Backup Plan to Keep Your Data Safe
Use these 3 backup tips to improve backup health
Follow the 3-2-1 rule
The 3-2-1 backup rule has been around for a long time. It is simple, easy to remember, and ensures efficient data recovery. The rule states that three copies of data should be backed up to two different backup media, one of which should be offsite.
Over the years, the rule has been adapted and expanded. However, the basic idea remains the same: create multiple copies of your data and store them in different locations so that you have a recovery option for all data loss scenarios.
This proven method is recommended for both business and home users:
Back Up Everything You Care About Regularly
Imagine that you accidentally delete a project you've been working on for weeks, experience a failed hard drive or your computer gets stolen. There are several scenarios in which we can lose data and never recover it. Classifying and prioritizing your data creates a clear roadmap for building your backup and retention strategy. Unsure about scheduling? NovaBACKUP recommends:
- Performing an image backup to a local device once per month
- A full backup to a local device, as well as to an offsite location, for example, cloud storage, every week
- And a differential backup every day as a starting point.
Automate Your Backup Schedule and Test Your Restore
With NovaBACKUP you can schedule your backups to run automatically. Don't forget to monitor your available disk space to make sure you don't run out. In addition to automating your backups and monitoring your disk space, you should regularly perform a test restore. Test the full restore from start to finish to ensure that your data can be recovered at any time.
About NovaBACKUP
Some data loss is preventable, but unfortunately not all. Reliable and professional data backup is your insurance policy against data catastrophes and thus against loss of revenue or the possible shutdown of your company.
Access Data Securely from Anywhere
With NovaBACKUP, your data is secure and accessible wherever you go:
- Protection for PCs and Servers, Virtual Machines, SQL- and Exchange-Databases
- Reliable Disaster Recovery
- Local & Cloud Backup (with US-hosted and supported Cloud Storage)
- HIPAA- and GDPR-Compliant
- 256-Bit Encryption in transit and at rest
- US- and German-Based Support by Data Protection Experts
- Optional Central Management available
Recommended for:
Individuals and Small Businesses in Healthcare, Education, Financial, Legal Industries, and more.
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Further Information for Your Backup Strategy
Mastering Data Protection
This whitepaper is your ultimate small business guide to protecting business-critical data. Losing critical data disrupts your business operations. It can result in the loss of access to vital information, leading to operational disruptions, and financial losses – or worst case, your business will cease to exist.
Leverage Cloud Backup for Maximum Data Protection
Many different industries are now embracing and reaping the benefits of cloud backup. With multiple ways to configure the cloud, its ability to meet the unique scalability and flexibility requirements of changing organizations makes it an invaluable tool for anyone's data protection strategy.
Elevating your Backup & Recovery Strategy
We explore the latest backup and recovery strategies that create reliable data protection across devices and locations. Our backup experts share their secrets on how to create a backup and recovery strategy that meets your unique needs and that ensures data is quickly recoverable in the event of a data loss scenario.
“NovaBACKUP is the first program that has worked for me as advertised. I have already successfully restored my system using a Disaster Recovery image backup. Thank you very much for your great backup software. It is the best!”
Eric MacDonald
Home User
“Another great aspect of working with NovaBACKUP is their support. I have had fast responses to technical questions and emails. Also, the team really knows their product and the industry, which makes the call much more productive. Finally, they are open to taking customer feedback and responding to it. That’s something I value a lot.”
Steve Oldham
Owner, Oldham Consulting
“NovaBACKUP has proven to be a superior product and their customer support is consistently the best and most experienced that I’ve dealt with from any vendor. Our team was very disappointed with our previous backup solution, which started to show instability and failures after being acquired by another company.”
Lori Simmons
Support Service Engineer, Mytec Services
“NovaBACKUP has saved me more than once. Very easy to use. I do weekly full image backups. This literally backs up the entire PC for an easy restore after a disaster like a failed hard drive. I highly recommend!”
Paul Zimmerman
Home User
NovaBACKUP's disaster recovery image backup was the only thing that was able to bring our clients’ crypto-locked admin server back to life. We tried the restore and boom, it's like it never even happened. This just proves why NovaBACKUP products are essential for disaster recovery and nightly backups. Amazing products and support staff. I give them the highest rating possible"
Graham Cennon
President, DMS Services Inc.