Does your organization have good backups of your critical databases? Are you SURE?

We wanted to take a few minutes to highlight an important issue regarding the safety of your accounting data.  We worked with several clients over the last few months, who have suffered system outages and have discovered that they either had only old backups -- or worse, no backup at all.

 

In one case, our client found they were having backup failures only after a vendor working on the system inadvertently corrupted their accounting data. They thought they had a backup but when they tried to do a restore they found their most recent good backup was over three days old.  This data failure resulted in them having to manually reconcile and rekey three entire days work for two divisions.  The cost of this, plus down time for the two offices was significant.  The cost to create and manage a good backup scheme in the first place is minor compared to these issues. We’ve recently deployed new backup schemes and a disaster recovery plan to offset the risk of this happening again.

 

Another of our clients discovered that their backup software (which had never been tested by their IT Staff) did not in fact work as designed. When a drive failed and they went to restore their database backups, they found that they had none. They lost ALL of their HISTORICAL Data and were forced to start from scratch. We’ve since implemented approved backup software and procedures to prevent this happening again.

 

 

We are happy to help you implement any recommendations, but our primary concern is that you keep your data safe. If you have any questions or are interested in taking advantage of this offer please contact our National Help Desk Team by email at support@nextecgroup.com.