One IT professional summed up what many have been mulling over recently: it sometimes takes losing data for a company to realise it needs a disaster recovery plan.
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One IT professional summed up what many have been mulling over recently: it sometimes takes losing data for a company to realise it needs a disaster recovery plan.
Disk-based backups aren't a bad thing to have, but they won't protect your organisation from disasters. For that eventuality, you need to have a point-in-time copy of your data stored away from the server itself.
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