| Many people never really even think about how | | | | recovery software, actually never recover from |
| disaster recovery software can be of help to | | | | the loss of their systems and their data. Statistics |
| them in a disaster. The reason is that most | | | | show that most companies that lose their data, |
| people or companies never have to experience | | | | go out of business fairly quickly. It is imperative |
| this type of disaster. Disasters can be weather | | | | that you have a solid data recovery system set |
| related, like tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, fires, | | | | up for your company. You may never need it, |
| hurricanes and a number of other things. They | | | | but if you are one of the unlucky companies that |
| can be caused by mistakes inside the company. | | | | does need it, you will be glad you got a plan. |
| They can even be caused by employees who | | | | You should have an off-site storage facility or |
| intentionally want to hurt the company. | | | | source. If you store your backup files at your |
| These types of disasters can cause you to lose | | | | location, and you have a disaster at your site, |
| all your computer applications, systems, | | | | your backup files will likely be lost also. Store |
| documents and data. If this happens, you will be | | | | them at another location. This is the whole point |
| temporarily out of business. If you have disaster | | | | of having another location to store your backups. |
| recovery software though, your downtime will be | | | | You should have your disaster recovery software |
| minimized. With your backup software, you will be | | | | backup your files automatically at the end of each |
| able to get things running fairly quickly. It's this | | | | business day. This way if you have a shut down |
| downtime that causes most companies the | | | | you will lose very little information. If you use a lot |
| problems. If you are down for too long, it may | | | | of information each day, back up your files twice |
| jeopardize your revenues. | | | | a day. |
| Many companies that do not have disaster | | | | |