Human error is the cause that results in 26% of data loss incidents. In virtualized environments, the rate of human errors has increased to 65%. Data loss incidents contribute to hardware failures that lead to costs valuable time of company, loss of critical business data, reputation, revenue and customers. Here we have listed some common errors related to backup and recovery along with the ways to prevent them.
Optimizing for backup and not for restore
It is advised to take incremental backups of your business data. They are smaller and quicker as compared to a full backup. The risk happens when you are in need of multiple backup to carry out a complete restore. With the increase in the restore time, the number of tapes also increase. The increased number of tapes, in turn, increase the possibility of getting them missing or corrupted.
Only taking the current backup
When your data gets corrupted, then it is needed to restore it from an earlier version of the data that was before the occurrence of corruption. By keeping your existing backup and previous versions, a business can resume its best working state.
Not taking the backup of the right data
Save all the important elements of major applications, databases, or services. You may back up your sensitive business documents, but if you lack the ability to reinstall or restore the application that executes them, then your recovery is not complete.
Inadequate storage as well as transportation of tapes
Improper storage or transportation of data can lead to its damage. This can lead to permanent loss of data from the tape. To obtain the data stored in the demagnetized or lost tapes, it is important to send them to a trusted and experienced tape archival vendor.
Not taking back up of the backup catalog
Most of the businesses fail to take the backup up of the catalog. If your backup catalog is not backed up or improperly protected, a restore may be needed to execute all the tapes via the system.
What is a file recovery software?
The R-Studio is one of the trusted and authentic file recovery software that was build for use by industry’s file recovery experts, IT professionals, system administrators, and experienced and advanced computer users. Some of features of this software were designed mainly for computer forensic experts.
This software gives the benefit of providing these parts in a single, and fully integrated program. You may require the hexadecimal viewer or editor to search hard drives of a damaged RAID to obtain its parameters, form images of hard disk drive to load those images, keep the original data in intact state, create a virtual form of RAID, scan RAID, search for known types of files, preview files to evaluate data recovery chances, mark all files that are needed to be recovered, specify recovery parameters, and begin data recovery.
Conclusion
Most of the above-mentioned errors can be easily prevented by use of a completely automated e-data backup and recovery service.
