As a small company having a secondary base of operations may be impractical, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have your data secure elsewhere ready for you if and when required. Cloud backups are now a commonplace solution that are practical for smaller companies because you don’t need to worry about getting any new hardware or new people to maintain your backups, you only pay for the storage that you need. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t shop around to get the most from your money, and different cloud backup services offer vastly different solutions based on your needs. As I mentioned, your data is important, so make sure you are storing it with a company that understands that principle and will put mechanisms in place to protect your data. Encryption protocols when sending and receiving are a must.
So what kind of backup do you need? Well let’s say you are a small company and you have 3 machines for your work, you may not need full clones of the 3 machines you may only need access to the actual files that you are creating so you can carry on where you left off from another machine. In that case you would simply need some online storage space for dropping your files into. Using a solution like this solves the tradition problem of backups, if your entire office space is destroy from a natural disaster, if your backup was stored there then your backup would also be gone, but with cloud backups your data can be within your reach wherever you are in the world.
What if you are a slightly larger company, say 40 user workstations and 3 servers, in this instance you are probably going to want full backups of not only files, but the server configurations too, I’m sure in the midst of a crisis the last thing you want to be doing is configuring your server, so why not fully back it up and have it ready whenever you need it. Even if you’re just moving offices, a cloud backup just makes good sense.
