{"id":4748,"date":"2015-03-03T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2019-11-07T06:14:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T06:14:40","slug":"backup-versus-data-recovery-little-spent-now-saves-lot-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/backup-versus-data-recovery-little-spent-now-saves-lot-later","title":{"rendered":"Backup versus data recovery \u2013 a little spent now saves a lot, later on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/news\/backup-versus-data-recovery-little-spent-now-saves-lot-later\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4749 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/backup-v-data-recovery.jpg\" alt=\"backup vs data recovery - spend a little, save a lot\" width=\"640\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/backup-v-data-recovery.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/backup-v-data-recovery-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Data recovery services are always an option when your business-critical data takes a nosedive.&nbsp; But frankly, if you&#8217;re getting to the point where you need them, you&#8217;re doing something wrong along the way.&nbsp; Data recovery can work, but it&#8217;s going to cost you a lot of money and you&#8217;re rarely guaranteed to retrieve all of the data you need.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the better option?&nbsp; Well, it&#8217;s pretty simple. If you can\u2019t afford to lose it, then back it up.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this article, we&#8217;re going to take a look at how a straight-forward, comprehensive backup strategy is going to save your data, your money and your time.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">How the dollar costs stack up<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/achievement-18134_640.jpg\" alt=\"data recovery vs backup, the costs\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/achievement-18134_640.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/achievement-18134_640-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The costs of data recovery can vary significantly based on the circumstances of the data loss.&nbsp; But even for a relatively simple, consumer-level recovery, you&#8217;re looking at a minimum of several hundred dollars.&nbsp; Heck, even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksquad.com\/services\/computers\/data-recovery.aspx\">Geek Squad states<\/a> on their website that costs can exceed $1,450 &#8211; and trust us, if you&#8217;re recovering data for business purposes, you&#8217;re probably not going to Geek Squad!<\/p>\n<p>For business-grade data recovery, the monetary costs can quickly sky-rocket.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re recovering data from a RAID array, SAN or NAS device, a business-grade server etc, the complexity of data recovery is significant.&nbsp; You&#8217;re unlikely to even find a data recovery specialist who will offer a quote for these kinds of services without first conducting a full evaluation into the specifics of the situation.&nbsp; Often, you&#8217;ll need to pay for this evaluation as well.&nbsp; After reviewing a number of different estimates online, we found ballpark figures for recovering a high-end server or RAID array ranging from a minimum of $1,000 up to nearly $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Comparatively, implementing a backup solution that allows for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/guides\/calculating-rto-rpo-make-bulletproof-business\/\">sufficient RTO\/RPO<\/a> will cost you a fraction of that amount.&nbsp; BackupAssist&#8217;s base-license, for example, starts at a one-off payment of just $279.&nbsp; When your business-critical data can hold value of tens of thousands or potentially even millions of dollars in revenue, that kind of expenditure is a no-brainer!<\/p>\n<p>Spending a little now can potentially save you a whole lot when things go wrong down the road.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">It\u2019ll cost you data too<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/network-cables-494650_640.jpg\" alt=\"data recovery vs backup, losing data too\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/network-cables-494650_640.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/network-cables-494650_640-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As we mentioned above, it&#8217;s entirely possible that the value of your mission-critical data could range into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.&nbsp; That means the other vital question you need to be asking is not just how much data recovery will cost, but also how much you&#8217;re going to get back!<\/p>\n<p>Data recovery technology and capabilities have vastly advanced over the past couple of decades.&nbsp; There are many situations in which data can still be recovered, no matter how dire things may seem.&nbsp; Heck, they even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/hard-drive-recovered-from-columbia\/\">managed to recover about 99% of the data<\/a> from one of the severely burned-up hard drives recovered following the tragic Columbia space shuttle disaster back in 2003 &#8211; and that was with the technology of more than a decade ago!&nbsp; Admittedly that particular endeavor took several years to accomplish, which is a downtime that most businesses could not tolerate &#8211; but more on that later.<\/p>\n<p>The point here is, that yes, data recovery services are often very effective.&nbsp; But unfortunately, they&#8217;re rarely 100% effective.&nbsp; And for most businesses, even a small percentage of business-critical data lost can have significant fiscal consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Backups, on the other hand, ensure that you always have the data you need. And that it can be quickly and completely recovered (again, providing you&#8217;ve correctly estimated and are meeting your RPOs!).&nbsp; With BackupAssist, these RPOs can be as little as 5 minutes under the right circumstances.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">And then throw downtime into the mix\u2026<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/hourglass-620397_640.jpg\" alt=\"data recovery vs backup - downtime factors\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/hourglass-620397_640.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/hourglass-620397_640-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We&#8217;ve said it before and we&#8217;ll say it again: downtime is deadly.&nbsp; So when you&#8217;re recovering data, you need to be pretty darned certain you&#8217;re going to be able to get it back up and running within a time-frame that won&#8217;t hurt your business.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, with most data recovery services, that just isn&#8217;t something you can rely upon.<\/p>\n<p>Like with the prices we talked about earlier, recovery times can vary greatly when it comes to data recovery.&nbsp; Again, through sifting through online estimates, we came up with an average of around 5 business days for most recoveries, with some taking as little as 48 hours and some stretching on beyond a week or more.&nbsp; It will all depend on the circumstances.&nbsp; As we discovered earlier, if you&#8217;re recovering data from a drive that fell from space, recovery can take years!<\/p>\n<p>For most businesses, a down-time without critical data of even 48 hours can be unacceptable &#8211; let alone more than a week!<\/p>\n<p>Compare this with a decent backup solution, where RTOs frequently fall inside of an hour &#8211; in some cases even just minutes.&nbsp; There&#8217;s really no competition.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, data recovery is a last-resort that you can fall back on if the absolute worst comes to the absolute worst.&nbsp; But if you&#8217;re justifying not having backups by the fact that data can be recovered, you need to go have a long hard rethink about your approach to data protection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>What are your thoughts on data recovery vs backup?<br \/>\nLet us know in the comments, tweet <a title=\"BA on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BackupAssist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BackupAssist<\/a> or <a title=\"BA on Facebook.\" href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/BackupAssist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post to Facebook<\/a>.<br \/>\nShare this article and let&#8217;s make data protection more cost-effective for everyone.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data recovery services are always an option when your business-critical data takes a nosedive.&nbsp; But frankly, if you&#8217;re getting to the point where you need them, you&#8217;re doing something wrong along the way.&nbsp; Data recovery can work, but it&#8217;s going to cost you a lot of money and you&#8217;re rarely guaranteed to retrieve all of &#8230; <a title=\"Backup versus data recovery \u2013 a little spent now saves a lot, later on!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/backup-versus-data-recovery-little-spent-now-saves-lot-later\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backup versus data recovery \u2013 a little spent now saves a lot, later on!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,760],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interest","category-news","category-legacy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Backup vs. data recovery - spend a little, save a lot | BA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Data recovery is expensive. 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