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You will not realize the importance of data backup, until you lose your important data and it’s too late to recover. Many reports from leading companies show that businesses are facing cyberattacks like ransomware and malware which results in loss of critical data. <\/p>\n

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Data loss can occur due to several reasons like cyberattacks, natural or manmade disasters, internet or power outage, hard drive failure, etc. Regardless of these causes of data loss, if you have the backup of all the data, you don’t have to worry about anything.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What is data backup?<\/h2>\n

Data backup is the process of creating the copies of your data and storing it at a different location, from where it can be used again, in case things go wrong with original data.<\/p>\n

Today, this has become very crucial for businesses of all sizes to have a backup plan, or they will fail terribly in events of data loss.<\/p>\n

Consequences of data loss<\/h3>\n
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“The average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million.”<\/em> \u2013 IBM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If you lose your important files, documents, or website database, you will need significant amount of time and resources to recover things and get over the loss. However, it is almost impossible for anyone to recover everything unless they have a backup plan.<\/p>\n

These are the main consequences of data loss:<\/p>\n

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  1. Reputation damage<\/li>\n
  2. Exposure of sensitive and critical data<\/li>\n
  3. Loss of customers<\/li>\n
  4. Permanent failure in business<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Backup process for WHMCS users<\/h3>\n

    If you are a service provider or any other business who is using WHMCS<\/a> platform to power the website, then you must know that WHMCS provides automatic backup process. The automated backup in WHMCS can help you to back up your database on a daily basis, so that you can keep yourself ready in cases of disasters or attacks.<\/p>\n

    WHCMS backup process enables automatic backup of your entire database which you can upload to SFTP\/FTP location or get it emailed to a desired email address.<\/p>\n

    Related read: Where to find custom WHMCS themes for your web hosting website?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Automated backups in WHMCS platform<\/h3>\n

    While the backup feature was available with the previous versions of WHMCS, but from the WHMCS v7.3, the platform has got an automated backup feature. This automated backup feature in WHMCS allows you to request full backups and get things done automatically on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

    \"Automated<\/p>\n

    Currently WHMCS provides automated backup support for the following methods:<\/p>\n