Backups are primarily to recover data after its loss from data deletion or corruption, and secondarily to recover data from an earlier time, based on a user-defined data retention policy. Though backups represent a simple form of disaster recovery and should be part of any disaster recovery plan, backups by themselves should not be considered a complete disaster recovery plan. One reason for this is that not all backup systems are able to reconstitute a computer system or other complex configuration such as a computer cluster, active directory server, or database server by simply restoring data from a backup.
Since a backup system contains at least one copy of all data considered worth saving, the data storage requirements can be significant. Organizing this storage space and managing the backup process can be a complicated undertaking. An information repository model may be used to provide structure to the storage. Nowadays, there are many different types of data storage devices that are useful for making backups. There are also many different ways in which these devices can be arranged to provide geographic redundancy, data security, and portability.
Due to the need of continuous and non-disruptive IT Services. Backup is a very important part of your IT strategy. Depending on the need we have our own powershell scripts for backup, but are also experience with commercial software like Veeam and Symantec.