| There are many benefits of data disaster | | | | recovered. This requires back up tapes to be |
| recovery that you should be aware of. It is | | | | taken off site every week to ensure data |
| important to implement disaster recovery within | | | | integrity. Servers need to be rebuilt within minutes |
| your company for many reasons. | | | | and quickly. |
| Data disaster recovery is very important for any | | | | Data disaster recovery needs to be managed |
| business. Disaster recovery is essentially the time | | | | properly and maintained through the IT support |
| it takes to get your business back up and running | | | | staff. There needs to be logs and proof of |
| should a disaster occur. If your company has a | | | | backups. It is important to know the data that |
| flood or a fire can you setup a temporary base | | | | resides on each tape. You will also need to have a |
| for your business elsewhere and have the | | | | backup server offsite as well. This is important if |
| systems up and running with access to the | | | | you want to be able to read the tapes to |
| applications. Chances are good the longer your | | | | perform the recovery. |
| business is not up and running the more money | | | | You cannot say you have a data disaster |
| you are losing. Can you be up and running if a | | | | recovery plan in process unless you have tested |
| disaster occurs? | | | | it to really work. You will have to be able to |
| Data disaster recovery consists of many things. | | | | rebuild servers, restore data from tapes, and be |
| This includes things like rebuilding the servers to | | | | up and running quickly. Testing all of these things is |
| mirror exactly how they were. In addition, all of | | | | the only way to know your plan is and will be |
| the data that might be lost in a fire needs to be | | | | effective if you have a disaster. |