Why end point backup for window is so important?

Are you an IT professional who has been in the industry for a longlong period of time? If so! Then you are the best person in the business who knows the responsibility of managing end points like workstations and laptops. In the field of information technology,technology, it has become a prevalent thing that more often than not end users  lose their computers. This kind of thing happens when the end users of a particular company lose their official laptops while they are staying in a hotel or traveling by train to attend a business conference.

The most  common thing that you might have noticed is when they are working from home and complaining to you about the sudden malfunction or breakdown of their laptops while working. Sometime, being scared, the end users try to hide the real problem and start producing false excuses, like it might be a faulty laptop that has been handed over to them by the company. There are some who address the real problem that they are facing with their official laptops at the time of work.

As IT hardware professionals, the common problem that you face most of the time is that there has been a sudden malfunction of the laptop screen, keyboard, and the inbuilt mouse. These are some of the things that are easy to address, as you can recover important official data with the recovery software that is provided to you by your company.

There are times when things become challenging for you when you face situations like a lost laptop, a stolen or a broken laptop. In this kind of scenario, taking data backups from such critical machines becomes a daunting task. When you start facing these kinds of situations, no matter how many rules come into play, like taking data backups on the central server, all you need to do at the end of the day is fix them up.

Sometimes, as an IT guy, a particular set of data may be important to you, but it may be important to the end user who is using that device. It is of absolute necessity that you resolve their problems. Elsewhere, it may happen that your job comes on the line.

Now the question that often arises within our discussion is: 

How do we resolve all these problems?

There are many solutions, and as an IT engineer, you can implement them. Rather, you can say it will be a combination of different protection techniques. Combining all those techniques together will help you deliver a good and effective data protection solution for endpoints.

Here are some of the techniques that one should look at.

·         One of the techniques is roaming portfolios, offline files, and folder redirection.

·         Work folders

·         One drive and Dropbox for business purposes

·         Group policies are another effective technique.

 

If you combine all of the above points, you will rather get an effective protection plan. Most corporate files will be redirected when connected; if something goes wrong, then the profile will be saved. Some may consider some cloud file system solutions, and the use of group policies can force settings upon the users, such as the default save location and more.

 

Now the question that immediately arises in your mind is:

 

Why the need for endpoint backup?

 

The first priority of the IT administrator is to back up all the data files on the corporate file server. Later, what you can do is take an additional backup of that server in case it crashes down. If any of the above-mentioned technologies crash, then, as a last resort, it is always a good idea to still have an endpoint backup. It will help them recover files when you are not around. One can also turn out to be a hero if they are able to recover the file soon.

Protecting corporate data at endpoints is just a matter of multiple-layer solutions. Endpoint backup is part of that approach and can protect those files that otherwise will fall through the maze but also help you as an IT administrator to fix issues or help them when they are abroad, offline, and so on.