Cyber Protection- Benefits of Maintaining Backups

With a great influx in the number of websites, need of cyber security has increased even more. People need to be aware of cyber-attacks, which can target any website at any given time. This can either modify the information on their website or crash their website/domain. All of this can result in loss of revenue, downtime for you and the users and loss of potential customers.

In order to save your data, the best solution is to have backups. Backups allow you to save your crucial files and databases and allow you to restore all lost files within a few minutes. No matter what error you encounter, you won’t have to worry about your websites or any other information, as you can go back to a clean state with just one click.

Why to have backups ready?

Backups can be done manually by a person or through a software/plugin, if you are using a CMS, such as WordPress.

Each website has its own set of files, which are hosted on a local or foreign server. These files have all the information about the data on the websites, including any products, content, users, comments, posts, theme etc. If any of these files catch virus or are deleted mistakenly, it can cause the website to crash or not work properly.

The website may also be a target of a cyber-attack, which can cause a great loss of information. Information in today’s world is vital, and all information on a website is comprised of years of data. By having a backup as a cyber protection measure at these desperate times, you can save yourself from tremendous loss.

How to do backups?

Backups can be done manually by the site owner, or an owner can give access to the website files to another hired professional to backup the files. All you have to do is transfer all through the FTP protocol to a safe system. It can be another computer or a cloud-based service.

Most CMS, such as WordPress, offers one-click backup solutions to their customers. If you are not satisfied with the CMS backup solution, various plugins and software are available for free that can give you more advanced functionality for your backups.

Using such plugins and software extends the following advantages:

· Automated Backups

The biggest advantage of having a plugin or CMS do backup for you is automated backups. You can set the intervals and choose the files you want to backup. You may also specify a location where you wish for the files to be backed up and the plugin will do it for you. You can set it to back up your data daily, monthly, quarterly or whatever time range you want.

· Saving your time

By not having to invest your time in backing up the files, you save your time, which can be invested elsewhere. All you have to do with a backup plugin is configure it once, and it will back up your files every time without fail. Restoring also becomes a lot easier, as you don’t have to upload the files back yourself manually, you can do it by one click.