It could be your worst nightmare. A server overheats, starting a fire that consumes your computer room before the sprinkler system kicks in and completes the disaster process. You've lost facilities, hardware, network and data. Now what?
Detailed planning is critical in order to ensure a business remains functional even during the toughest times. Implementing a disaster recovery plan is a strategic, moral, and legal corporate obligation.
Backup and disaster recovery is an integral part of any well implemented business technology solution. With today's technology and NSAO's know-how a small business can expect the same recovery capabilities that of a large enterprise business.
Here are some key points to think about when considering a solution:
- Bare metal restore capability
- Time to retrieve offiste backup data
- How long can your business afford to be down
- Standby server hardware
- Leverage virtualization technology
- True backup testing, verification, and monitoring
- Special backup technology needs for server applications, ex. Exchange, SQL, etc.
- Near real time data backups
- Timespan of past data that is recoverable
- Who is responsible to make sure it is taken care of