Disasters can be easy to deal with, or seem like an overwhelming task.
We can't always avoid disasters, but with planning and preparation we can control disaster response.
Right now most companies have a No Recovery strategy which equals no data restored.
After surveying 50 companies located in Los Angeles with 20 to 30 employees we found that they did not have any type of recovery past a Tape Backup.
In most cases they had the office manager put in the tape.
In some cases the backup was not running and thus they had NO backup.
Frighten as this may sound your company may be one of them.
Does your company have a good disaster recovery plan? Let's see what is a disaster recovery plan to begin with.
First there are all types of disasters.
A hacker can cause data loss on your server.
A computer virus can cause data loss to flat files as well as databases.
I know most of you are saying sure I have Norton anti virus to protect me.
Are the virus definitions up to date.
Is is properly configured? if you do not have some outsourcing firm or in house IT staff then how do you know? Power failures are the way we meet some clients that need our Data Recovery services.
They begin us their burnt out drives and expect miracles from us.
Of course we deliver but the costs are very high.
Natural Disasters are another way we meet clients.
The building has has water damage or power damage and their server(s) where not properly backed up and connected to a UPS device.
The most common type of data loss is System Administration Errors or lack there of.
Mainly because the tape backup unit or perhaps the new and improved disk based backup was not working? No one took the time to read the event logs of the system, application and backup system.
Now it is time to restore and you are left with a puzzled face.
I thought I was doing backups.
So as you can having your online data being hosted offside is important security measure and disaster recovery prevention.
We can't always avoid disasters, but with planning and preparation we can control disaster response.
Right now most companies have a No Recovery strategy which equals no data restored.
After surveying 50 companies located in Los Angeles with 20 to 30 employees we found that they did not have any type of recovery past a Tape Backup.
In most cases they had the office manager put in the tape.
In some cases the backup was not running and thus they had NO backup.
Frighten as this may sound your company may be one of them.
Does your company have a good disaster recovery plan? Let's see what is a disaster recovery plan to begin with.
First there are all types of disasters.
A hacker can cause data loss on your server.
A computer virus can cause data loss to flat files as well as databases.
I know most of you are saying sure I have Norton anti virus to protect me.
Are the virus definitions up to date.
Is is properly configured? if you do not have some outsourcing firm or in house IT staff then how do you know? Power failures are the way we meet some clients that need our Data Recovery services.
They begin us their burnt out drives and expect miracles from us.
Of course we deliver but the costs are very high.
Natural Disasters are another way we meet clients.
The building has has water damage or power damage and their server(s) where not properly backed up and connected to a UPS device.
The most common type of data loss is System Administration Errors or lack there of.
Mainly because the tape backup unit or perhaps the new and improved disk based backup was not working? No one took the time to read the event logs of the system, application and backup system.
Now it is time to restore and you are left with a puzzled face.
I thought I was doing backups.
So as you can having your online data being hosted offside is important security measure and disaster recovery prevention.
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