Disaster Recovery Planning

Unplanned Events can have a Devastating Effect on Business.

Crises such as fire, damage to stock, illness of key staff or I.T. system failure could all make it difficult or even impossible to carry out your normal day-to-day activities.

At worst, this could see you losing important customers - and even going out of business altogether.
With good planning you can take steps to minimise the potential impact of a disaster and ideally prevent it happening in the first place.

Contingency Strategies

With the ever growing reliance on computer based infrastructure and data management, clients records case notes etc, the security and safety of that essential business data is down to the reliability of your I.T. systems and the back-up and contingency strategies in place.

Disaster Recovery Plans

If your business doesn’t have a Disaster Recovery Plan or DRP, then it important for you to be aware of the potential disaster that your business is facing in the event of a systems breakdown and or loss of irreplaceable data or the man hours required to re-key in information.   No system is failsafe and it’s inevitable that computer systems will fail as they are electrical devices that are on or off and work on binary 1010101010. Equipment can fail your business for a variety of reasons whether it be natural disaster, flood, fire or electrical data corruption or human induced sabotage or innocent human erasure of sensitive data by accident.

Deletion of Files

Years of work can be erased in minutes by such disasters and the deletion of files can be instigated by key strokes by untrained or ill supervised staff. What to do in such cases other than cry is to fall back on a system of backups and data recovery mechanisms which you wisely invested in before the problem occurred. It’s far better to lose a few hours work or minutes than months or perhaps year’s worth of data.

Recovering Critical Data

Disaster Recovery is the process and procedure of restoring critical data, hardware, software and business communications within a minimum possible time loss and inconvenience. We all appreciate the impact on your business when the internet is down, it seems the world grinds to a halt. Just imagine if you lost essential data without any possibility of recovering it – what impact would that have on your business?

To ensure your business has the chance to recover from a disaster your business MUST have a disaster Recovery Plan in place.