The attached document serves as a starting point to help organizations identify a backup solution that will protect the investment they've made.  It's not written as a comprehensive or definitive backup guide, but rather a document that focuses on backing up the AGRIS Product Suite that your company depends on so the data is protected in the event of a disaster.  It discusses the importance of regular and reliable backups, commonly used backup technologies, best practice recommendations, and also specific directories that should be backed up.  The document can help network administrators, managers, and employees who are assigned to check the status of backups on a daily basis work together to ensure successful backup processes.  
 

Did you know the following statistics?

• 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures.

• 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.

• 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately. (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)

• Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States. (Mozy Online Backup)

Source:  http://www.bostoncomputing.net/consultation/databackup/statistics/

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