Do you have a Disaster Recovery Plan?

The most common response is:
"What's a Disaster Recovery Plan?" or "I did a backup."

Contrary to what many people think, Disaster Recovery does not end at doing daily backups.

We provide everything you need to fully recover from a disaster: a platform, a place to work and experts to guide you through the process.

Backup's are merely the start. Many people don't bother creating Disaster Recovery Plans, because a disaster that may require it "never" happens. Businesses are learning the hard way that they do happen, and those Recovery plans are needed.

Disaster Recovery Plans should consist of how to deal with the following:

• Contingency planning.
• Natural Disasters (i.e.: Fire, Flood, Storm, etc).
• Blackouts.
• Hardware failure.
• Theft.
• Key personal leaving.
• Viruses.

Most people who work with large databases or servers do backups. If you do a Backup every night, then perfect, but many small businesses do backups once a week or even once a month. Then, when disaster strikes, they complain because they have to re-enter by hand all the data that was not backed up. Usually this is a several week project costing several thousands of dollars, even when they've only lost one day worth of transactions. The first step in having a good Disaster Recovery Plan is to do a daily backup.

Keep in mind, though, that a Backup is only a minor part of a Disaster Recovery Plan.     Contact: disaster-recovery@pentaq.com.au