Friday, June 29, 2012

An interactive eGuide: Backup Solutions


 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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