Another newsagent this week has to rebuild their business data from scratch because they did not have a back-up and their old computer died. They didn’t have a backup because they couldn’t bothered doing it every day.
Now, their hope of selling the business is at risk because they cannot prove their sales claims.
Not backing up every day is stupid. The cost of cover from this could be thousands in terms of IT expert fees or even more if you are looking to sell your business in the next year and do not have current business performance data on which to set a price.
Oh, and if you are backing up every day, have it checked to make sure you are actually backing up.
By backup I mean taking a copy of data on a USB stick or some other device for safe keeping or, better still, a cloud backup facility whereby a perpetual offsite backup us undertaken.