Disaster Recovery Solution

[Lettice Horne]

Our office transferred to a new location and I am looking for a Disaster Recovery Solution. We never had one in our old office that's why I don't really have any idea about this. Anyone who knows? Please help!

 

[Tractorat]

What part of the country do you live in ? You might try hooking up with a local VAR. They should be able to help you.

 

[fest3er]

'Disaster Recovery' is not *a* solution. Rather, it's really a set of plans that is an attempt to ensure the continuation of the company in the face of some destructive disaster.

Disaster recovery planning is really a series of "What if?" sessions.

• Imagine a large meteor lands directly atop your place of business and destroys *everything*.
• Imagine your top managers are meeting at a local banquet hall and terrorists attack and kill everyone present.
• Imagine there's an intense electric storm and all of your computers and servers, and all of your networking are fried.
• Imagine there's a flood, 10 foot up your factory production floor.

Disaster recovery is the process of imagining such doomsday scenarios and making plans to recover from them so that the company can return as soon as possible to making a quality product at a reasonable cost that satisfies the customer, gruntles the employees, and allows the company to earn a fair profit.

Disaster recovery plans might include:

• Use contacts throughout the industry to replace lost management
• Perform daily off-site backups of all computers so that, once replacement systems are purchased, the data can be restored fairly quickly, the new systems brought on line, and employees become productive again.
• Maintain a reciprocation agreement with competitors such that if one suffers a disaster, the others will lend tools, equipment, or even factory time while the affected company recovers and rebuilds.
• Remain aware of suppliers and retailers who can provide the materials and equipment you need to recover.
• Periodically review the plans and verify that they remain feasible.
• Periodically review insurance plans to verify that they will provide enough cash to pay to replace what is lost.

Lack of disaster recovery plans often means that, if there is a disaster of some kind, the company does not--cannot--recover: it closes its doors forever.

 

[Tractorat]

Once again, try to find a local VAR who may have experience with setting up a disaster recovery plan (and solution) for other companies like yours. Or they may be able to point you to a consultant who has some credentials here. But the tdr is probably not the best place to find what you are looking for.

 

[seafish]

You guys, maybe I am just being paranoid, but I think this guy is a bot/troll based on his low post count, and his ambiguous and almost meaningless other posts, including a"prayer" that is a link that I didn't even dare go to given the extent of various internet viruses these days.

Hope that I am wrong, but doubt it.