Data Disasters Recovery Plans - Creating One

Every single one of us who uses a computer for fun or for work has been faced with turning on our machine one day and finding that it simply didn't work. You immediately turn it off, and try to restart it, and are greeting with a blank screen and immediate panic. If you lost everything that was housed on your personal computer, how great would that loss be?

Consider then how much more horrific that loss would be if it encompassed every single bit of data that was housed on a network of business computers. Could your company survive that kind of loss and still be able to do business normally? The answer, of course, is a resounding "No". No business could survive the total loss of data and the resultant confusion and chaos that would take place if the data was not housed in a secure off-site storage facility so that it was able to be readily retrieved.

If you are in business, even small to mid-sized business, and have not considered or given serious thought to a data disaster, as well as preplanned a recovery from that data loss, the fact is that your business is a time bomb waiting to explode. A single spilled soft drink or an intense thunderstorm may be all that it would take to leave you stranded without the data that your company needs to survive.

Every business needs to create a data disaster recovery plan for use in the event of a disaster of any magnitude. Bear in mind that a disaster doesn't necessarily mean a storm, or events such as a fire, but could simply be a single hacker entering your system and corrupting the information that is housed there. You and your business need a data disaster recovery plan to help you to cope and to stay open with minimal down time to your business.

Creating a Data Disaster Recovery Plan

Creating a viable data disaster recovery plan means planning for more than a hurricane or a thunderstorm. It means planning any conceivable way in which you may lose data and then working to prevent that from taking place. Secure off-site data storage and an easy retrieval plan is a necessity when you are in business. Once you have completed the disaster recovery plan for your business and your data, be sure that every employee or worker has a copy of that plan, that it is spelled out what the plan entails and that a copy of that disaster recovery plan is stored off-site along with the data that you are trying to protect.



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1 comment:

  1. Many small businesses that are coming up are neglecting the fact that they need to come up with a data disaster recovery plan . Many people are having problem in their business. If they read this i think their all problems will be solved.

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