{"id":4773,"date":"2021-02-10T06:15:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nexela.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2023-03-20T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:30:42","slug":"how-to-count-down-to-beneficial-data-redundancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nexela.com\/?p=4773","title":{"rendered":"How to Count Down to Beneficial Data Redundancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A business\u2019 data needs to be considered a priority, which means that its protection should be prioritized accordingly. One facet of doing so is maintaining a backup with a strategy in compliance to best practices. To accomplish this, your backup should feature something that isn\u2019t often considered a benefit: redundancy.<\/p>\n

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How Redundancy Can Be Good<\/h2>\n

We know, we know\u2026 to a business, \u201credundancy\u201d is practically a curse, associated with waste and inefficiency. Your backup presents a situation to serve as the exception to this rule.<\/p>\n

For instance, having too many supplies on hand is a bad kind of redundancy. It implies you have overspent on that resource and it is now taking up too much of your finite storage space that could otherwise be used for other things. This obviously isn\u2019t good.<\/p>\n

In the case of your data backup, on the other hand, redundancy can make it even less likely that your data will be lost.<\/p>\n

What Redundancy Looks Like in a Data Backup<\/h2>\n

To be considered properly redundant, all a backup needs is its own backup. The idea is that, should something happen to one of them, the other (or others) is (or are) available to you.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s examine a few scenarios using different backup methodologies to compare the relative benefits and risks of each.<\/p>\n

Here, the data backup options are as follows:<\/p>\n