Reliable Enterprise Data Backup Solutions and Best Practices

What is enterprise data backup and why it is necessary?

Enterprise data backup is the process of creating a copy of an organization's data to avoid data loss due to cyber-attacks, hardware failure, manual error, etc. to ensure business continuity.

Nowadays, Lots of enterprises and organizations face data security challenges if they don't do data backup. Here are some shocking statistics:

	5.6 billion malware and ransomware attacks took place in 2021. They are estimated to rise by more than 600% plus the factor of worldwide pandemic of COVID-19.
	96% of businesses experienced at least one of the major causes of data loss: human errors, hard drive failures, outages, fire and natural disasters.
	$11,600 is the estimated average downtime cost per minute for businesses. $8,000~$74,000 for small and medium companies, $700,000 for large enterprises.

To prevent these situations, the most reliable way is to choose an effective enterprise data backup solution and build a high-availability, high-performance data protection strategy. That is why enterprise data backup is necessary.

How to choose the best enterprise data backup solutions

Compared to individual workstation, an enterprise environment often comes with:

• More PC and server devices.

• Larger volumes of data and more operators.

• More user information cannot be lost.

• Higher requirements for business continuity.

• ...

Thus normal backup software is not suitable for complex enterprise environments. So how do you choose the proper enterprise data backup software? Here are some factors you can consider:

Endpoint backup: Regardless of the business size, the ability to backup all computers over network is important. Endpoint backup is just such a concept, referring to storing and copying data from network endpoints, such as laptops, desktops, and servers.

Backup objects: There are many kinds of computer data, but they can be broadly divided into files and operating system. Performing file backup can save your lost data, and system backup can save crashed computer.

Unattended backup: For companies with large volumes of data, it is impractical to manually perform backups every day. So the enterprise data backup software you choose should support customizable scheduled backup so that the tasks can be performed automatically even when unattended.

Backup storage: In addition to internal and external drives, it is also common practice to store backups to cloud or network share (NAS). These storages are less error-prone, larger in capacity, and are more convenient for users on the LAN to view and use together.

Centralized management: With handy centrazlied backup software, an administrator can manage backups for all computers in company from a central console, which relieves IT burden and reduces manual errors.

Backup scalability: For growing enterprises, the number of businesses and devices is likely to expand at any time, so the backup solution should also be sufficiently scalable to better handle the growth in data volume.

Enterprise data backup best practices with powerful software

Based on the above criteria, here I present you with an endpoint backup software - AOMEI Cyber Backup. This enterprise data backup solution supports VMware, Hyper-V, MS SQL databases, and Windows PCs and Servers on the network. With the centralized console, you don't need to perform the backup on each computer, which greatly saves your time and effort.

You can schedule backup jobs for all the client computers and manage the tasks centrally, thus gets you out of repetitive operations and reduce human errors.

Here I will show you the enterprise data backup best practices with this centralized backup software. You can download the 30-day free trial to get started:

Practice 1. Deploy enterprise network backup software for all workloads

After installing AOMEI Cyber Backup on any of your Windows or Linux computer as the central console, you can then deploy AOMEI Cyber Backup agent programs to all the workloads you want to back up (Windows PC, server, databases, etc.) and gain control over them. You can also add agent workloads to different groups and apply different backup schemes.

✍For VM backup, you don't need to deploy agents, please skip to practice 2.

Click Source Device > Agents. You can choose Add Agent or Download Agent to install the AOMEI Cyber Backup agent remotely or locally.

• Add Agent: . Enter the IP address and login information of the agent machine, and click Confirm to add the agent machine. 

• Download Agent: click Download Agent to download the agent files. Move it and install it on your guest machines.

Practice 2. Set up scheduled backup task with continuous data protection

In order to perform unattended backup job, you need to create an automatic task.

1. Create Backup Task > Backup Task > Create New Task

2. In the task creation wizard, choose a Backup Type from VMware ESXi backup, Hyper-V Backup, Microsoft Backup, Disk Backup, or File Backup according to your need.

3. Then set Task Name, Backup Type, Device, Target, Schedule, and Cleanup.

Device: Choose workloads that need to be backed up.

Target: Choose a destination to save the backup. You can save backup on a local path, external hard drive, network share, or NAS drive.

Schedule: You can choose to perform full, incremental backup and differential backup, and automate execution daily, weekly, or monthly according to the frequency you specified.

4. After all settings, click Start Backup to commit the backup task. You can click Add the schedule and start backup now to run the task immediately, or click Add the schedule only to run task according to the schedule.

Practice 3. Perform enterprise data recovery flexibly

After a backup task has been created and performed, it is important to consider the issue of data recovery. AOMEI Centralized Backupper centralize all your tasks in a single console, and you, as administrator, can Restore from any task to achieve flexible enterprise data recovery.

In the Start Recovery wizard choose Source and Content. Then it support to restore backup to the original location or another new location.

Practice 4. Manage all enterprise backup tasks centrally

AOMEI Cyber Backup enables you to create and manage backup tasks for various enterprise workloads within LAN. After creating backup tasks, these tasks would be listed under the Backup Tasks Tab, and you can manage all backup tasks you have created in this section

Conclusion

In this article, I introduced how to pick an efficient enterprise backup software - AOMEI Cyber Backup, and the best practice to perform enterprise data backup efficiently. It works well in protecting all enterprise data on different platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, Windows physical machines, MS SQL databases, etc.