Don't Do This Mistake #4

Introduction

Most of IT managers have a backup solution in case of disaster; and IT Managers was set the tools (softwares and/or hardwares) to implement backup solution to meet business needs.

Definition

Backup solution is a tools (software and/or hardware) to safe your data on storage media (Tape, HD, DVD, etc.).

Why backup solution?

Backup solution is the key weapon in case of disasters (i.e. lost data, hardware failure, natural disaster, etc.). Once you lost the information stored on your IT Assets the business will affect negatively. So you need the backup to recover the business.

Testing Backup Solution

Backup solution is the key part of your backup plan, and you have to integrate all backup plan parts to get the value from backup solution (what we are taking about in this post). The big mistake I want to mention it is not testing your backup solution.

Testing your backup solution is a very important part of your backup plan and it is the key to make sure your backup solution is working correctly. Don’t forget testing your backup solution you don’t know when you need to use one of your backup it is working normally and the backup was taken correctly.

Remember that

Backup solution is the key of your backup plan this key must be tested to make sure this key will work normally when you need it.

And also remember

Not testing your backup solution is a big mistake.