 | Many businesses do not realise the value of their data until it is too late. Others think that they have good backups, only to find them unreliable when needed. |  |
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Manuscripts and data are extremely valuable. So are an author’s time and the ability of agents, publishers and booksellers to continue to providetheir services. Lose continuity and you can quickly miss important deadlines and lose clients, customers and revenue.
- On average, by the 6th day of a major data loss, companies
experience 25% loss in daily
revenue. By day 25, this has risen to 40%.
- 43% of companies that
experience a severe data loss and have no effective recovery plans in place,
never re-open.
- 61% of companies took
more than a day to recover from their worst systems failure. (Information security breaches survey 2004 - DTI)
A study by the University of Texas found that "only 6% of companies suffering from a catastrophic data loss survive, while 43% never reopen and 51% close within 2 years"
Dataloss is expensive and costs UK business billions of pounds in lost revenue every year. Computer hard drives now hold more information in smaller spaces which amplifies the impact of a failure. In addition, the variety of file types that hold critical business information necessitates a backup system which is simple, automatic, fast and efficient. It should be capable of collecting and storing data from a range of file types. You should consider:  | Company accounts, spreadsheets, P&L accounts and sales forecasts |  | Corporate, recruitment, sales training and marketing presentations |  | Manuscripts, cover and advertising copy, contracts, rights data, sales data, royalty records, business plans, correspondence, HR data |  | Client databases, CRM and sales contact management systems |  | Pictures, videos, projects and media files both business and personal |
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why backup?
