- Loss of data is a problem for businesses.
Fortunately, it's a problem that can be avoided with correct preparation. It doesn't take large events like a fire to cause a business to lose important data. It can be as simple as dropping a laptop to the floor, or a power surge that results in burning out a storage device, or an untested backup to fail.
Establishing a disaster recovery plan can be done in the following four steps:
1) Take a potential risk inventory.
Your list should include losses that won't affect the business very much, and those that would shut the business down temporarily or permanently. This is your risk inventory.
2) Rate each of your potential data loss situations.
How likely is it for each of the items on your risk inventory to occur? Rating them in order of importance and likeliness to occur will help you determine where to focus your disaster recovery plan efforts.
3) Develop your disaster recovery plan.
Go through each of your potential risks and their solutions, and determine how long it would take you to recover from the loss of data for each risk. Depending on the nature of your business, being offline for even just 24 hours could result in your losing customers to your competition. Look at ways to reduce the length of time it would take you to recover from each type of data loss risk.
4) Put your disaster recovery plan to the test.
Once you've created your plan of action for recovering lost data, you should test your solutions. A disaster recovery plan is just a plan until it can be tested and proven.
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