Is It Really Necessary to Have an Exchange Backup?

Feb 6
14:51

2011

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

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Your company might not think that it is all that important to have an Exchange backup program in place, but it is perhaps the most important piece of insurance your company will ever have. Few businesses are able to withstand days' worth of downtime, let alone weeks at a time, and by having a backup program up and running, you will be assured that you can always get everything back up and online in a matter of hours, or even minutes.

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The number of threats that are online right now are incredible and if you haven't yet been hit by a virus,Is It Really Necessary to Have an Exchange Backup? Articles then it is just a matter of time. The value of an Exchange backup will show itself not only when viruses attack your system, but also when one of the most common type of issues hits a server and a network - user error.

Everyone has made the mistake, from time to time, of installing the wrong type of software, deleting files that shouldn't have been deleted, or overwriting important information with new, less important data. We are human after all, and those things do happen. But what also can happen is that someone within your organization (or even on the outside), could start a malicious campaign against your company and its data and wreak havoc in a matter of minutes.

When you have an Exchange backup program running in the background, you will never know it is there, and hopefully you will never have to use it. But, should the time come when you do need to go back in the past and find a piece of data that is no longer there or is now corrupted, you will have it to go back to. It is indeed the best piece of insurance your company will ever buy.