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