| Disaster recovery is generally a part of a larger | | | | - What are the possible failure scenarios? |
| process known as Business Continuity Planning | | | | - What is the critical data? |
| (BCP), which plans for any IT or non IT | | | | - How often should backups be performed? |
| eventuality. A server disaster recovery plan helps | | | | - When should a full backup versus an incremental |
| in undertaking proper preventive, detective and | | | | or differential backup be performed? |
| corrective measures to mitigate any server | | | | - Should backups be performed online while users |
| related disaster. | | | | are working, or offline? |
| This contingency plan is often ignored until it's too | | | | - Will backups be done manually or via an |
| late to set it right. The lack of a proper disaster | | | | automatic scheduling process? |
| recovery plan has proven disastrous for many | | | | - How can you verify that a backup was |
| organizations and has led to heavy financial losses. | | | | successfully performed? |
| The first step in developing a disaster recovery | | | | - How will you determine if the backups are |
| plan is to estimate the extent and impact of | | | | useable? |
| acceptable loss to an organization. The loss of | | | | - How long will you save backups before reusing |
| different types of data induces different impacts | | | | the medium? |
| and financial implications. The loss of an hour's | | | | - How much time will it take to restore from the |
| record of financial data on a server is more | | | | last back up? |
| disastrous than a similar loss of personnel data. So | | | | - Where will your backup media be stored? |
| protection against such losses is provided by | | | | - Do appropriate personnel have access to backup |
| database backups and transaction logging. | | | | media for restores? |
| The second step is loss to the access or the | | | | - If the IT System Administrator is not available, |
| database itself. In either case, the result is | | | | is there a source for acquiring system passwords |
| catastrophic and can seriously dent the reputation | | | | and procedures to backups and, if necessary, |
| of an organization. The result would be end users | | | | perform restores? |
| not being able to access the data on the server | | | | - Does the disaster recovery policy incorporate all |
| and huge financial losses. | | | | of the above recommendations? |
| Server disaster recovery is a process to | | | | A good server recovery plan ropes in |
| anticipate such impact and devise a strategy that | | | | consolidated storage, consolidated servers, revised |
| allows the organization to get back on its feet in | | | | policies for backup, archiving and disaster |
| no time. The best recovery software is highly | | | | recovery protection. Some applications are now |
| critical in getting mission critical applications hosted | | | | more disaster aware. Disaster planning gives |
| on the server, up and running. A server is the | | | | organizations incentives to develop the discipline |
| heart of an organization. When it goes down, it's | | | | and efficiencies they should have had in the first |
| crucial to have a plan to recover and move on. | | | | place. There are many dimensions to consider in a |
| Server Disaster Recovery Software | | | | professional and pragmatic server disaster |
| Server disasters can happen any time. Proper | | | | recovery plan. |
| server disaster recovery software can retrieve | | | | To get in touch with disaster recovery experts, |
| data and important files from the server. There | | | | log on to the website. Experts here can build a |
| are questions to be answered before | | | | plan for your organization, so that you can |
| implementing such software. Typically these | | | | achieve a high ROI and data reliability. |
| questions include: | | | | |