Cloud Backup has to be handled in a professional and organized way to ensure data safety and security. Cloud backup solutions need to be implemented in a way that is compliant with organizational data and standards.
This article highlights some of the proven best practices associated with cloud backup.
Let’s look at the following important cloud backup steps and make sure we don’t miss out on any of these:
Immediate backup: critical data
Critical data requires immediate attention and proper handling from production to cloud storage. The organization must first identify its most important files and folders to start syncing it to the cloud backup and storage solution.
Some of the data that is constantly changing needs to be stored as point-in-time snapshots. Cloud service providers have multiple solutions and features to support point-in-time snapshots of structured data creating data dumps and storing it to the cloud.
Scheduling and testing
Scheduling has to be customized and defined as per organizational polices in order to avoid losing important. This good practice ensures timely cloud backups. The organization’s IT teams should carry out proper testing of backup and recovery to ensure each and every component of the cloud backup service is working properly.
Veeam cloud backup and Microsoft cloud backup allow you to set scheduling polices for daily or weekly backups.
Monitoring
It is very important for the organization using cloud backup technology to monitor and review backup reports and logs. The automatic monitoring and scheduling make life easier generating alerts and maintaining logs constantly for you. Monitoring is imperative to avoid false positives and negatives. The system and data disks need to be monitored to ensure data safety.
Encryption
Encrypting cloud backup data is highly recommended especially for compliance with data security standards. Cloud Services providers that are well known like AWS and Azure are compliant to security standards and use strong encryptions schemes like AES 256. Furthermore, using Veeam cloud connect and other well-known cloud gateways ensure hardware-level encryption of data in transit.
Data has to be encrypted at rest, in transit and in use.
Incremental backup
Incremental backup has to be one of the best space-saving practices for cloud backup solutions. All the recent changes are saved incrementally over the previous states. This avoids duplication and saves a lot of unnecessary space consumption. Disaster Recovery backups are necessary for smooth business continuity.
Conclusion
Data loss over cloud backup services has been trending and the most common cause comes out to human error. Following best practices greatly reduce the chances of losing important data in cloud backup scenarios. Failing to monitor, schedule, test, encrypt and optimize data backups results in a lot of trouble and disruption for organizations.
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