Servers make the digital world go round. They store irreplaceable data, run business-critical applications and services, allow companies to operate and people to collaborate across continents; host websites, online stores, and web technologies; the list is extensive. If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that data should be protected at all costs.
It’s absolutely vital to make regular backups of your servers. If that seems rhetorical to you, you will be horrified to know most people simply do not give it a second thought; until of course, they lose their data, and the regret comes crashing down on them.
How often your servers should be backed up depends on how critical your data is, how often your data changes, and how much you can spend on your backup service.
Ideally you should create 1 full backup a week, and schedule daily incremental backups. As the name suggests, incremental backups store small amounts of data regularly, specifically only the changes made since your last full backup was created. This saves considerable space and money. It’s also important that your backups are stored externally, meaning don’t store the backups of your server on the same server.
HOSTAFRICA’s Acronis backups are ideal for safeguarding server data with full and incremental backups. These backups are stored in a different Data Centre to where our servers are hosted and can be managed using our top-quality backup manager.