Small business owners juggle a lot of responsibilities, but one task that you never want on the backburner is server backup. With so much of today's critical business information in electronic form, servers are our modern day file cabinets, holding everything from client information to intellectual property, financial documents to e-mail records.

Given the valuable data that they hold, server backup should be a regular part of your company's routine business operations. If a server goes down due to software failure or a disaster, you could lose everything. But despite this danger, only a fraction of small businesses have a regular backup process in place.

Fortunately, we now have several easy options to help us protect our data. We will list a few methods here, but because the technology is constantly evolving, it is important to do further research before you put a new system in place or update an old one.

Manual Backup