Our FREE Disaster Recovery Plan Helps You Prepare
You hear it all the time from us—back up your data, keep your virus protection current, and install and maintain a firewall to protect yourself and your client’s data from hackers, online threats and even physical disasters.
However, while these precautions will certainly help you avoid problems, they CAN’T do anything if you don’t have a good backup and disaster recovery plan in place.
Is Your Setup a Disaster Waiting to Happen?
We all know that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; yet, disaster recovery planning often takes a distant second to the daily deadlines and pressures of running a Business. That means that most firms, including your own, may end up offline and without your data after a simple lightening or winter snow storm. The image on the left is the Power-Outage situation during the freak Fairfield County and Connecticut October 2011 snowstorm as reported by Connecticut Power & Light. The black key represents close to 100% power loss. As bleak as it looks there are technologies available that let business continue working. Read more about true backup and disaster recovery options.
Don’t think that could ever happen to you? Consider this: “data-erasing disasters” can also take the form of office fires and broken water pipes. If a fire started in your building, the parts that weren’t burned beyond recovery would probably be destroyed by the firemen’s efforts. Or you may recall the truck that drove into an office building in Westport, Connecticut closing it for months. But even more common is software corruption, hardware failures, human error and theft!
Disaster Recovery Questions
You Need To Answer
A disaster recovery plan doesn't have to be complicated, time-consuming or expensive. Start by asking yourself the following questions...
1. Do you back up your practices data daily to both an onsite and offsite location?
2. Are you absolutely certain that your backup copy is valid, complete and not corrupt? How do you know for sure?
3. If disaster strikes, HOW would you get your data back, and how long would it take? In many cases it takes days and often weeks; what would you do during that period of time?
4. Do you have copies of all the software licenses and discs in a safe location that could be accessed in the event of having to rebuild your server?
5. Would you and your employees have a way to access your network remotely if you couldn't get to the office?
6. Do you store important passwords in a secure place that partners can access if you are unavailable?
7. Do you have a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) device in place to keep your network and other critical data operations running during a power outage?
This is NOT a complete list, but it is a good start to get you thinking in the right direction.
Our FREE Disaster Recovery Plan Helps You Prepare
We’ve decided to help our clients get their “IT house” in order by giving away a FREE Backup and Disaster Recovery Audit. At no charge or obligation, we’ll come to your office, review your current disaster recovery plan (or lack of one!) and provide a simple action plan on what you need to do to make sure your firm can always be up and running.
For more information, please contact our office at (203) 349-8047 Ext. 211 and ask for Johannes Banck, SBSC or e-mail us at jb at cssdllc.com
