Backup & Disaster Recovery Planning

Today most businesses depend heavily on technology and automated systems. Having your business disrupted for even a few days could cause severe financial loss and even threaten survival. The continued operation of your organization depends on management’s awareness of potential disasters, their ability to develop a plan to minimize disruptions of critical functions and the capability to recovery operations expediently and successfully.

A disaster recovery plan is a comprehensive statement of consistent actions to be taken before, during and after a disaster. The plan should be documented and tested to ensure the continuity of operations and availability of critical resources in the event of a disaster.

The primary objective of any disaster recovery plan is to protect your business in the event that all or part of its operations and/or computer services is rendered unusable and/or data is missing. Preparedness is the key. The planning process should minimize the disruption of operations and ensure some level of organizational stability and an orderly recovery following a disaster.

Items to consider when putting together a disaster recovery plan are

• Providing a sense of security
• Minimizing risk of delays
• Returning to working conditions quickly
• Guaranteeing the reliability of standby systems
• Providing a standard for testing the plan
• Minimizing decision-making during a disaster
• Develop a risk assessment
• Prepare a risk analysis and business impact analysis

Our technicians fully understand the critical nature of your systems and even more importantly your data. In order to assist you in developing a disaster recovery plan our technicians will look at your current system, analyze your data requirements including future growth of data, determine your critical data needs and then help you develop your plan. You should make this a high priority item. You don’t want to find out how critical this plan is after you have experienced a disaster.