Key Considerations for Making Your First Cloud Backup
Congratulations! After much thought and consideration, you have decided that you are ready to move your data into the cloud. You will soon start enjoying the benefits of cloud computing, including peace of mind that your data is safe and secure.
However, as an important step, you must first get your data to the cloud. Here are several tips for consideration that will help optimize your first cloud backup deployment.
Prioritize Your Data
When you decide to use cloud backup from Essential Data Services, we will first make an initial backup of your data before we start backing up your data incrementally. Depending on the amount of data you require to have backed up, this initial backup can take some time. As a result, it is important to prioritize your data – first backing up the most critical files as well as the files that are used most often.
Balance Your Bandwidth
When conducting the initial backup, steps can be taken to ensure that your network isn’t adversely affected during working hours – when your employees require access to the Internet. During the day, endeavor to strike a balance between completing the backup and having enough bandwidth for your employees. On weekends and after business hours you can increase your bandwidth to focus on your backups.
If your database is very big, Essential Data Services will first perform the initial backup locally. Data will then be imported to our remote backup systems, before proceeding with the incremental backup.
Deduplication
Deduplication is a process that ensures you don’t waste resources by backing up numerous copies of the same data, thus reducing bandwidth requirements and storage consumption. By keeping a digital signature of the files that have already been backed up previously, Essential Data Services makes sure that your backups are efficient.
Keep a Local Copy of Backup Files
Leveraging the cloud for backup will allow you to recover data in any situation when data loss occurs. However, creating a second local backup is ideal for accidental file deletion as well as quickly recovering a single server in your network.
Essential Data Services offers cloud data storage and recovery solutions through partnerships with IBM and Asigra. For more details, contact us today at 1.866.408.2737 or [email protected].
