Deciding upon how often backups of your company’s data should take place is an important decision for any business owner. The answer to this concern is never going to be a one size fits all, as it depends entirely upon the cost analysis, which will be unique to how your business operates and its size.

The goal of any backup strategy is to limit a company’s risk. A company wants to ensure that any work they’ve done is stored safely so that it can recovered in the result of their system getting damaged, but they also don’t want to back up process to impeded that work or cost more money than it could potentially save.

A medium sized company which depends heavily upon their internal computer network will want to back up their network every day. This is so they can maintain continuity; at most they’ll lose a days work, which can of course be recovered very quickly.

A smaller business which only has one or two computers running at a time, may decide that their backups need to run far less regularly. It may be more ideal for them to consider a monthly back up.

Larger companies may decide on a different solution entirely; one which updates throughout the day. This solution is the best and most effective, but it can also be very expensive. It does mean though that any work which has been done will immediately be stored in two different locations, which means that the risk involved is considerably lower.