Successful disaster recovery depends on having a plan in place before things go wrong. A reliable managed service provider (MSP) can greatly improve your chances of avoiding data loss.
Disaster scenarios include physical damage, such as fire, flood, or burglary, as well as malware and hardware failure. The best preparation for these situations is ongoing offsite backup, saving all your information on a daily or hourly basis to a remote location.
If you do lose data, you want to get back up and running as fast as possible. Downtime equals lost business. Your MSP should not only have a good backup but be ready to restore your systems rapidly.
Local backup to a disk drive offers some protection, but it’s not enough by itself. Anything that damages your computer can also damage the backup drive sitting nearby. You need to have backup at a safe distance from your place of business.
A tested recovery plan gives the greatest confidence. Conducting tests requires extra time and hardware, but if you need to bring risk to the lowest possible level, regular tests are worth it.
You need to choose a provider that will safeguard your data’s confidentiality. It needs to offer secure transmission and secure storage. You need a trustworthy provider with high availability. If a storm does serious damage to your office, you want to be confident that it hasn’t also taken your backup offline.
Regular review of the recovery plan is necessary to make sure it covers all systems. Hardware changes frequently even in small operations, and it’s important to make sure that you’ve protected every machine that holds essential data.
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