“I’m sorry, it’s not our responsibility that you can’t recover your data, we only provide backup.”

“So I’ve been paying you good money to backup my data and I can’t get it back?  You mean tell me that ALL my files are gone?  Well that means I’m pretty much …”

It’s an unsettling thought to ever think you could be having this conversation.  Scary thing is it happens all too often.  Stats show that 70% of disaster recovery attempts from backup products and services fail are incomplete or ineffective.   It’s wild to think that most options for data backup aren’t very good at recovering data.  Sure there are multitudes of ways to backup your data.  Tapes, CDs, DVDs, online backup, disk backup, replication, and the list goes on.  But how many data protection products and services can actually ensure recovery of your data completely when you need it most?

So what’s the point in backup if you can’t recover?

Tags: backup, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Online Backup, tapes

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