There is a long list of mundane tasks that pre-determines your ability to either recover and move on from a ransomware attack/natural disaster or struggle and suffer negative business consequences.
It’s not enough to simply back up your servers and critical data sources. Backups need to be checked for successful completion, and errors must be resolved. Regular recovery testing needs to be performed to ensure a successful backup job is also a recoverable backup of your systems. Backup storage (whether on local devices, in the cloud, or both) must be procured, managed, maintained, and expanded as data grows.
While critically important, these tasks are typically tedious and time-consuming. Highly skilled IT professionals dislike spending hours on them every week, and it’s easy for more strategic projects to push backup administration tasks to the back burner.