Backups A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition

Are there existing policies that might affect how and when you do backups?

Are your files backed up sufficiently and regularly and are backups stored safely?

Do you have the possibility to make incremental and differential backups?

Does your system create automatic offsite backups for disaster recovery?

How many backups at any point in the collection system have occurred for any reason?

Is the current version of software you are using compatible with backups from several years ago?

Is your organizations frequency of backups appropriate for its environment?

Should the primary backups be replicated to an off-site backup location?

What is the appropriate backup medium for the types of backups to be performed?

When is the last time someone actually performed a restore from your backups?


This Backups Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Backups challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems.


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.



Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'



This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Backups investments work better.



This Backups All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.



INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Backups Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Backups maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Backups improvements can be made.



In using the questions you will be better able to:



Diagnose Backups projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices.



Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals.



Integrate recent advances in Backups and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines.



Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the Backups Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Backups areas need attention.



Your purchase includes access to the Backups self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.