Ten Tips for Successful IT Disaster Recovery Planning jenlor.com

Information technology plays a vital role in the operations of most businesses. It is the means by which they survive. It should not be

surprising that because of this situation, all businesses desperately need to have disaster recovery plans in place. Here are ten tips to successfully

plan for disaster recovery.

Develop a plan.

Start with the basics and then determine what is most important and go from there.

01

Monitor your plan.

Once you have the plan, monitor it to make sure it is still up to date

and functional.

02

Test Your Plan.

Perform regular tests to make sure the plan still works.

03

Back-up your data.

Perform off-site data back-up and storage. Don't rely on simply on-site backups, but have off-site backups

as well.

04

Perform data restoration tests.

Make sure data can be recovered if

it is lost by restoring documents from a previous time.

05

Back-up laptops and desktops.

Don't rely only on network shares, but also help users who store files on their laptops and/or desktops.

06

Be redundant.

Have multiple backups of files for faster recovery and to insure that you don't rely on a single copy.

07

Invest in your plan.

Invest in theft recovery and data delete solutions for laptops. Increasingly mobile

staff means more likelihood that information may be lost or stolen.

08

Install regular virus pattern updates.

Protect email, data, and systems by

installing regular virus pattern updates as part of disaster recovery planning.

09

Consider hiring a managed services provider team.

These service providers can build shared, multi-

tenant IT infrastructures that host multiple companies on the same hardware and network equipment which helps keep costs affordable and advantageous for its

customers.

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