An
interactive eGuide: Backup Solutions. Computerworld.
June 2012. [PDF]
Disaster
recovery is the ability to continue your mission-critical operations after an
interruption of some kind. An organization must be able to restore applications
and processes to the point where they were before the outage occurred.
Organizations “with a business continuity plan and disaster recovery plan have
the ability to get back to a semblance of normalcy in a much shorter span of time
than those without.”
Instead
of focusing on technology, put disaster
recovery processes in place; prepare for the most likely causes of downtime.
Decide what is most important. Store your data away from your physical site in
the event of a natural disaster. Develop
strategies to address operational continuity, IT recovery, and communication needs. Understand all parts of the backup
procedures.
- Test your backup/recovery (including cloud backup) at least one a year and make sure it actually works the way you want it to.
- Keep install files for your software, including security keys.
“Backup
is really the insurance policy that you hope you never have to cash.
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