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Are you prepared if you have a disaster? A disaster can be a Server failure, a PC failure, flood, fire or someone simply deleting important company data.

Do you have a plan?

As simple as it may sound, a thorough Disaster Recovery (DR) plan is critical to ensuring you can quickly recover from a disaster. The plan should contain a step-by-step process that considers the various issues that can occur during a disaster. Once a DR plan is developed, it should be printed out and stored in an accessible onsite location like a disaster recovery war room. A duplicate soft copy should be saved in other locations such as your IT consultant/solution provider’s network in case you need to access it remotely. The plan should be updated on an ongoing basis and will eventually provide for every scenario as part of the organization’s crisis management plan.

Do you have a trusted partner?

With limited budgets, nearly half of all small businesses find it difficult to have a dedicated IT department. To help ensure your business IT needs are being met you should look to a solution provider to help meet your company’s needs. Solution providers bring experience and best-of-breed solutions to the table and allow you to focus on the business.

Do you have backup and recovery software?

Backup software will help ensure that your data is safely backed up in case of an unforeseen emergency; while recovery software will enable you to quickly restore complete systems. It is important to remember that your backups are only as good as your ability to recover the information, systems and applications.

Do you have an established process so backups occur regularly?

One of the biggest mistakes organizations make is not performing nightly and weekly backups. IT systems can be brought down for a number of reasons, including hardware failure, human error, natural disaster or improper security processes. Policies and processes should be implemented and automated as much as possible to ensure they are completed. It is critical to back up data regularly and store extra copies of this data offsite. Regular auditing of these processes should also occur.

Do you have access to your archive and backups?

Archives and backups should be stored at an offsite location to ensure that data can be recovered in case of a physical disaster.