The Promising, Problematic SMB Backup Market

Nice article over at WindowsITPro on The Promising, Problematic SMB Backup Market.

Backup is always something that we have to address with SMB Owners. It just doesn't take center stage for many of them and it should. Time and time again we hear and see of reports of SMB's losing data. I had one office recently lose 6 months of invoices because the last backup was six months ago and when they went to do a backup the owner did a restore by mistake. Ooops!! Imagine the pain of entering 6 mos of data for a full service contracting company. It wasn't pretty.

The article highlights that IDC says that only about 40% backup regularly. Boy it sure seems like less. That's why SBS has been great to implement. Just show a manager or owner how to change a tape or replace a USB hard drive and it gets done with an email alerting whether it was successful or not.

Want to hear a funny thing, the office above wanted a new server the next day to fix their backup problems. When we said we couldn't make miracles happen overnight, but we would rather implement the RIGHT solution, the client balked and walked away. I guess some will never learn.