Tips for start-up business data storage

Managing a business today means having to keep up with storing and sharing a lot of digital data. From important documents to fully fledged projects and programs, digital data is vital to the running of our business, might it be a start-up or a well-established company. In fact, how we store and share information across a business is often the key to having a successful enterprise. This is why there is little room for errors, as any incident of data loss can have a terrible impact on our business. So when it comes down to data storage, there are a few practices which can save us from potentially disastrous incidents of data loss.

Keeping spare copies daily.

The simplest solution will consist of keeping backup copies of our data on separate hard drives. Every day, company staff or administrators can make a copy of their work on a spare hard drive. This ensures a regular backup so that at the most, our company can only loose a day’s worth of data. It is a simple procedure which will require staff computers to contain more than the one hard drive, though the spare hard drive can be internal (SATA) or external (USB) to their work post. The main action required is to drag and drop files from one drive folder to the other, which is an easy thing to do and provides the business with a potentially much needed spare copy of our data.

Using cloud storage.

Another more common method is to create an account with a cloud storage company such as Dropbox or JustCloud. Those sort of services offer online storage space which we can use to make copies of / or simply store our business data. This offers the advantage that our data is backed up online on servers which have systems in place in case of storage malfunction. Basically, our data on their servers is stored on multiple drives, making it very difficult to lose our data. Those services also offer great access to our data as they can be accessed from any computer using the right credentials.

Using Google services.

Google services not only offer cloud storage with Google Drive but also come with their own online document editors, enabling us to create online word documents as well as online spreadsheets and even forms. Those services save our data automatically as we edit it, meaning they mostly stay up to date even in the event of our hard drives crashing or even breaking. Using this sort of service also makes document sharing to be very easy and contains great ways to restrict access to documents, ensuring only the people with the right login info get to access and edit the data.

Using professional recovery services.

This is a final tip in case our hard drives do end up malfunctioning, restricting our access to our much needed business data. Under no circumstances should an unqualified person attempt to recover data from a faulty drive, as this could lead to losing the data altogether. The only course of action in such event is to use expert hard drive recovery companies as they are the only ones qualified to deal with the issue. This is a remedial solution which hopefully won’t be necessary as long as we take the right measures in backing up our business data, but it is the only working solution to events of hard drive corruption. So let’s keep our business safe by doing the right thing with our data.