5 Tips For Disaster Recovery Planning

As listed on the IT Windows Pro Networking and Hardware blog, the top five considerations to keep in mind for effective disaster-recovery planning are downtime, data integrity, cost, simplicity and security. This blog details the key considerations and offers tips for safeguarding business data.

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"Downtime: A study by Contingency Planning Research estimated the cost of downtime at roughly $18,000/hour for many businesses. How much time it takes to recover data—how long a business can afford to be out of business—is a high priority.

"Recovering terabytes of data from tape involves first identifying which set is needed, requesting a delivery from the offsite storage provider, correlating each tape with a logbook, determining which to load first, then restoring data. This process may take days of working round-the-clock, depending on the amount of data. Recovering from disk storage devices kept on-site reduces time to hours instead of days, but disk itself is not a viable option if the place of business is damaged. Disk is also vulnerable to corruption and accidental erasures."

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