Is Your Exchange Backup Up and Running?

Imagine if you paid for car insurance, year after year, only to find out that when you were in a crash and really needed it to back you up, the company had gone out of business. Having a backup for your Exchange server can be just the same way if you don't know what you are doing. You might have the best Exchange backup program in the business, sitting on the shelf, but if you aren't backing up regularly and properly, you might as well go out of business yourself.

Having an Exchange backup program is your company's most important piece of insurance. It means that no matter what happens to your data, that there will always be a non-corrupted backup, ready for you to work from. It means that if you have an angry employee who wants to wipe out your data, you will have a backup. It also means that if a natural disaster, a flood, a fire, or a power surge destroys any part of your information, you will be insured.

The value of any Exchange backup system really isn't seen until the worst happens. In the meantime, it may seem that the price of a backup is a waste of money, but the same could be said for car insurance as well. Most of us pay for car insurance for years, or even our entire lives, without ever having to use it. But, knowing that it is there is vital to being able to drive freely without worry.

When you are shopping for any backup program, it is vital that it is affordable, easy to use, reliable, and that the backup is easy to restore from. By making sure that it is always running in the background, you will be able to operate your business, knowing that you always have a fall-back position.