The worldwide pandemic became one of the major reasons why millions of employees started to work remotely worldwide. Many of us have got adjusted to the new reality of working from home. However, it has also caused IT admins new backup and recovery challenges. They had to adapt to new requirements for backup and recovery. Fortunately, there are generally-recognized practices on how to keep your data safe and recoverable even during the work-from-home era.
Revise Your Recovery Objectives
Your recovery plan should include recovery objectives that allow you to determine what success should look like. With remote work becoming our new reality, businesses need to reevaluate their recovery time and point objectives. Determine how fast you can get the systems back up and running without facing costly downtime. Can you frequently and effectively protect all systems with the majority of your staff working from remote locations? If not, you need to revise if you have enough budget to get your infrastructure updated to achieve your goals.
Evaluate Your Current Backup Recovery Solution
There are many backup recovery solutions available in the market. However, many of them do not offer the features you might need to manage fully remote backup and recovery. Before you pick the right solution to drive your backup and recovery strategy, ask yourself the following questions:
- Does it allow me to deploy agents to remote machines?
- Is there a cloud-based console to manage backups available?
- Is it possible to test backups remotely?
- How much flexibility do I get in terms of options for storing backups (local storage vs. public cloud vs. private cloud)?
- Is it possible to restore machines without physically accessing them?
- How easily can I do everything above in an emergency?
Opt for Cloud-Based Backup and Recovery Solutions
Cloud-based solutions make working remotely easier and more effective for people, teams, and entire companies. An effective remote backup strategy uses the cloud to take and store backups, restore them, and control the entire process.
Recover No Matter What
Although remote data backups and recovery may be challenging in today’s work-from-home era, using the right tools using can easily achieve your data recovery objectives no matter where the endpoints are located. We’ve already seen how remote recovery helps large Chicago Medical Center. There are many other success stories when remote data recovery solutions allowed small and large businesses to do everything they needed remotely. Why compromise and keep on waiting? Handling backups remotely is easier than it seems.
