Disaster Recovery – What Happens if All Your Data is Lost in a Disaster?

What happens if all your office data is lost in a man-made or natural disaster? Do you have a disaster recovery plan in place to restore your company information, such as customer contact information, accounts receivables, payroll, financial statements, etc? CDN Technologies can help you to prepare for the worst so that if it does happen your business will be able to survive where many other companies fail.

A Disaster Recovery Plan Requires Off-Site Back up Solutions

It is important that you have some way of backing up your company information. Whether data loss occurred due to human error, or unforeseen circumstances, you need to get your information back to keep your business operational. Backing up your daily company data to tape, and storing the tape off site is the most conventional, tried and true way of maintaining a back up of your company data.

If you have a considerable amount of data to secure, like daily email system backup, tapes can vary in size to ensure all of your information can fit onto a data storage tape. CDN Technologies can assist you in choosing the right off-site back up solutions and mediums for your business and in backing up your data to protect against the event of a disaster.

Online Off Site Back Up Solutions

The advantages of having an online off site back up solution to protect your data is that there are no tapes involved. Online off site back up solutions provide you an extra insurance should all the information on your computers be lost. Every day at a time of your choosing CDN Technologies’ secure off site backup services looks for new and changed files on your computer. These are compressed for efficiency and encrypted for security, before being transmitted over the internet to the data center.

Should you need to restore a single file or bring back the information from your whole computer this can be completed over an internet connection.

CDN Technologies can provide the right off site back up services and mediums for your business so that your information is available to be recovered in the event of data loss.

Other Steps You Can Take to Protect Against Disaster

In addition to backing up company information to tape or to an off-site data center, you should also consider ways that you may be able to protect against disaster in your office. This could include having battery back ups or extra generators in the event of a power failure, surge protectors, and fire extinguishers, to protect your company data and hardware. Speak to an expert, such as CDN Technologies, to help advice on what other steps you can take to protect your on-site data.

Preparing your Disaster Recovery Plan – Speak to an Expert

It is important to speak to an expert, at CDN Technologies, about implementing a disaster recovery plan. Many businesses who lose large amounts of their business data never survive. Depending on the type of data back up solutions, your investment return could be 1000% should you ever need to recover company information in a crisis. In many cases you can resume business operations within minutes from your current company data. Your company will have a data recovery system in place that will enable your business to get back on its feet and running smoothly a lot sooner and with more success than businesses that do not have this in place.

What Information Should Your Disaster Recovery Plan Include?

When preparing your disaster recovery plan, you will need to consider how important the data in your office is and how soon after the disaster it would be needed. By doing a business impact analysis you will be able to determine what data is important to you, how current it needs to be and how soon after any disaster it would be needed in order for business to resume as normal. Once you have this information available CDN Technologies can then advise on what disaster recovery plan you should put in place.

Disaster Recovery

According to “Backing up Business – Industry trend or event” in “Health Management Technology” Jan 2001, 43% of companies that have lost large portions of their computerized records never re-open, 51% close within two years and only a small 6% will survive. By having a disaster recovery plan in place, you can ensure that you are amongst the 6% that do survive. Once your disaster recovery plan is in place and in the event of a man-made or natural disaster, you will easily be able to restore the data to your on-site computers using the off-site back up solutions that you had in place. This will mean not only that your business has a greater chance of surviving the loss, but also that you will be able to get back to work that much faster.

Having a disaster recovery plan is a vital element in ensuring that your business can survive in the face of a man-made or natural disaster. Many businesses who experience major losses of data do not manage to survive, but by speaking to CDN Technologies and implementing a disaster recovery plan you can stay in the top 6% that do. A disaster recovery plan means knowing what data is important to the running of your business and how soon after a disaster it would be needed, and then protecting your company’s information with the best off site back up solutions.