Originally published August 20 2005
Backups can be a good protection from bad luck
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Experts say that too many small businesses have insufficient backups and backup protocols for their important data, despite the high level of risk from fire, flood or computer malfunction, C-Net News reports.
That is the advice of specialists in planning for disasters, who say too many small businesses are courting ruin by failing to take fuller precautions against fires, floods and, increasingly, the loss of critical data stored in computers that go on the fritz.
Vitart's adversity is being repeated with increasing frequency across the world of small business, specialists say.
Entrepreneurs, who are often short-staffed and consumed by the problems of the moment, have always been a bit haphazard about preparing for unexpected events that could threaten their firms' survival.
A survey of small-business owners conducted last year by the Gallup Organization for the Research Foundation of the National Federation of Independent Business found that at least 30 percent of respondents had had to shut down for 24 hours or longer in the previous three years as a result of a natural disaster, like a blizzard or hurricane.
After hiring a firm to store data, business owners should contact the company about three weeks into the process and make sure all their information can be easily retrieved.
That means having the company either send a disk with the data or give access to the data online.Raisch of New York University counsels small-business owners to review their important business processes and understand what the business relies on.
He suggests reading NFPA 1600, a preparedness standard from the National Fire Protection Association that grew out of an effort by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the early 1990's to create a common backbone for emergency planning.
Riza Chase-Gilpin, owner of Kitty's WonderBox, a Wellington, Fla., maker of disposable cat litter boxes, was hit with a computer virus last year when she opened an attachment from an unknown source.
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