Today is World Backup Day – are you backing up your business data?

by [Craig Taylor](/content/author/craigtaylor/ "Posts by Craig Taylor"/index.html) | Mar 31, 2026 | Backup, News

World Backup Day is setup to raise awareness of the importance of protecting your data against loss or theft. It should not be the only day you backup your data – you should ideally be backing it up every day!

Unfortunately small businesses often overlook the importance of regular backup, my previous post ‘ Are backing up your business data?‘ explains why you should be backing up your data.

An effective backup is not just a copy of your current data, but snapshots of your data at various points in time, so if necessary, you can recover data from one of those points in time. This is why online cloud services such as Onedrive, Dropbox and Google Drive cannot be considered a true backup; it is only a synchronisation of your current files – if you delete a file the corresponding file would also be deleted from the online cloud service.

It is estimated that 60% of small businesses, who do not have a backup plan in place, will close within six months after experiencing a significant data loss.

Engage IT partner with Datto to provide a range of backup services from onsite server backup, to cloud backup for Microsoft 365 and Azure.

Engage IT include Microsoft 365 backup with all our support plans including our new User Protect package at £15 per user/per month, this backs up all of your email, contacts, calendars, OneDrive and SharePoint files 3 x per day.

Not a big cost compared to the potential cost and impact to your business of an irrecoverable data loss.

Contact Us to discuss your backup requirements.