Businesses ignore the importance of backup

A new survey finds that small and mid-size businesses are unprepared for disasters and don't have solid backup plans. The survey by Charlotte, North Carolina-based Agility Recovery Solutions and Hughes Marketing Group, interviewed more than 700 business owners and executives in North America about the issue.

The survey found that 94 percent of companies have formal data backup plans but 90 percent of smaller companies (those with less than 100 employees) said they spend less than one day per month maintaining their continuity plans. And that's a recipe for disaster. More than half of the businesses surveyed have experienced interruptions that affected productivity.

Agility chief executive Bob Boyd told eWeek.com that a data backup plan is not the same as a disaster recovery plan, and the best data in the world is useless if users can't deploy it properly. "Businesses must take measures to ensure employees can return to work immediately after a disaster," he told eWeek.com. "Without alternate plans, your business will pay the ultimate price."

For more on the importance of backing up data:
- check out this eWeek.com article

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