From Cyber Building Fires We Learn The Importance Of Data Backup To Reduce The Impact Of Disasters

Data Center (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Cyber 1 building fire in South Jakarta made several portals operational paralyzed. The building is one of the locations of data centers in Indonesia. This makes business actors aware that data backup is very important in the digital era.

"From the fire incident yesterday, we have been made aware of the importance of data availability and connectivity to our websites and applications," said Exabytes Indonesia chief Indra Hartawan, quoted from ANTARA, Saturday, December 4.

Business people, especially small micro and medium enterprises (MSMEs) which have entered the digital world more and more in the last two years, are asked to back up additional data, especially if the services they use do not provide backups or a business continuity plan. adequate.

According to Indra, one of the things that must be considered in a sustainable business plan is the availability of a disaster recovery center when dealing with force majeure like yesterday.

He realized that implementing a complete disaster recovery center would cost a lot of money. In addition, infrastructure support in Indonesia has not yet fully covered post-disaster recovery. "We still need support with the government to provide information and education to the Indonesian people regarding the mechanism for the importance of the Disaster Recovery Center to deal with a crisis if an incident occurs," said Indra.

When it comes to mitigation for major incidents, according to Exabytes Indonesia, among other things, it is necessary to have regular data backups and have data centers in several places so that a disaster recovery plan for securing customer data can be executed faster.