Disaster Recovery Services - What Is Your Plan

Businesses stand the chance of something happening to them from time to time.  The website can be hacked, a fire can start, or something else, just as bad, can happen.  The services of quality disaster recovery services may be necessary at some point in the life of the business.  It is therefore important that the business have a disaster recovery plan in place at all times.  This kind of planning is relevant to big and small businesses alike and none should think that this cannot happen to them.  Those who do not have one in place often find that once something happens, they go out of business immediately.  More than 25% of the small businesses that have a disaster occur to them, never open their doors again.

The value of having a disaster recovery plan in place is that should there be a disaster such as a tornado, flood or something else, the business can be up and running as soon as possible.  In addition, the clients can all be served as needed.  This however can only be done if the company has a disaster recovery plan.  The plan should include data backup kept offsite to ensure that it also does not get destroyed when everything else goes under

Setting up a disaster plan does not need to cost you an arm and a leg.  It can be a plan that includes such things as a server crash or even a power outage.  Some of the things you need to put in place include the following:

Make sure that you have a list of contacts. 
This contact list should include the number of the people you have engaged to handle your disaster recovery services.  The list must also have the details of your main business contacts.  These include insurance agents, vendors, partners and staff.  When it comes to staff, keep their cell numbers, home numbers and the phone numbers of their next of kin just in case you need to contact them.  Email addresses of their next of kin are also important so keep those as well.

Make sure that you create backup material and that you have a copy onsite and another off site.
Computers should be backed up regularly and the data backup should be kept both onsite and offsite.  Make multiple copies to be on the safe side.  The onsite back up is great when the server goes down or there is some failure with the hard drive.  However, in the event of a fire or flood the offsite backup may save the day.  Because human beings tend to forget, it is important that the system you put in place have automated backup so that every so many hours the backup happens.  Cloud back up is a great way to keep your data safe in a way that is also cost effective.

Test and make sure you understand the vulnerability of your business. 
There are at least 2 or 3 things without which your business would be completely crippled.  Determine what these are because they are the weak points of your business and should be secured at all costs.  Find a person who deals in disaster recovery services and let them help you work on how you can mitigate these risks.  One of the other things you will need to do without fail is to think up scenarios that could bring about the failure of your disaster recovery plan and then create a plan to mitigate the risk of potential failure of the plan.  This way you will have all your bases covered and should anything happen, your business can be back on its feet as fast as possible