There are two kinds of people: those who do backups and those who WILL do backups. Sincerely, you don't want to live through the nightmares of a broken or compromised system not having a reliable backup of your data. Think about it. What's the worst case scenario? Your critical data gets corrupted. Your business operations stop, and you can't continue until you recover your data in some way. The data your system holds (especially the data stored at your core business component - your softswitch) is critical to your business continuity. This includes (but is not limited to): CDR data system configuration parameters contracts and contracted prices invoices There are three general guidelines regarding doing your backup properly: The backup should be done regularly and automatically The backup location should be not accessible from the backed-up system The recovery process should be documented and the actual recovery drills should be done from time to time L...