The primary difference between backup and recovery is that the former is a copy of original data that can be used in case of a database failure while recovery refers to the process of restoring your data to its original state when a failure occurs.

It’s very important for businesses and individual  to plan ahead and put data backup systems into place in case the worst happens, well before it happens.

Successful data backup systems are accomplished by using an offsite server, Cloud Backups or backup on separate offline drives