Is a Server Backup All That Important?

You may rely on all of the individual users to back up their own personal data, but there is much more on your network that documents. You should be making sure that you are backing up all of their preferences, their permissions, their mailboxes, and the settings that they have established on their own computers.

Some network administrators don’t feel that a full server backup is necessary since everyone is essentially responsible for their own data, but that is not always correct. Chances are that you have more than one person on your network who doesn’t know how to backup, and several more who don’t bother to do it. When the system goes down and their data is lost, they will turn to you and you will inevitably be to blame.

The good news is that installing a server backup program is extremely easy and once it is set up, you won’t have to worry about it again. You don’t have to make time to bring the server down or let people know ahead of time that everything is being backed up. There are ways of backing up an entire server’s worth of information without disrupting anyone’s computing time.

In addition, when you have a server backup running, preferably at a remote location, you will always have access to clean copies of all of your software and network settings. So, no matter what damage a virus or your own employees do to your system or their own data, you will still have a place to go where all of the data has been untouched.