Saturday, April 28, 2012

What you need to do to implement a disaster recovery plan

By Stefanie Crown


Remembering to regularly back up your company's important files, documents and other data is very important. Without back-ups, you could lose crucial data permanently, even after such a simple mistake as simple as the wrong button pressed and a file deleted. However, if something more serious should happen, you will need a more advanced solution than data back-ups.

Implementing a disaster recovery strategy is the best way to upgrade your company's data protection measures. This will protect your systems from the damaging effects of major and minor disaster, allowing you to quickly and easily recover data and restore your systems.

Improvements will need to be made in a number of areas if you want to implement a reliable disaster recovery strategy. The first thing to do is to contact a company which specialises in disaster recovery services to talk about how more than just your files can be protected. Using an appliance plugged into your networks, such a company will be able to store and test a daily snapshot of your company's systems.

This snapshot of your systems can then be used to restore your drives and other systems in a way that is much faster than restoring your operating system then copying over the data files you have previously backed up.

The storage of your backed-up data files is something you should put a lot of thought into. To save backups from the same damage that may affect your main business premises and systems in a disaster situation, you should find a safe and secure place off-site to store them.

On a final note, remember to test the back-up processes you have in place to ensure that they are still working. Do this regularly and fix any problems immediately, or you could find yourself in trouble when you actually need to recover files and other data.




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Anonymous said...

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