White Papers > Developing a Backup Strategy White Paper > Developing a Backup Strategy > Why Are Backups Important

Why Are Backups Important?

To establish that backups are important, consider the impact to revenue and customer satisfaction if your production database suddenly became unavailable, even for just five or ten minutes.

What if data files were lost due to media failure and you could not restore or recover them because you did not have a backup? From the perspective of your enterprise, the results could be grim.

To resume operations, you must be able to restore and recover your data quickly. A key factor to your success in this situation is a well‑defined backup strategy.