Small Buisness Disaster Recovery, Are you prepared?

Different levels of backups and disaster recovery are available for all companies, but the smaller companies may not be prepared. What level of backups does your company have? I recommend a Managed Service backup plan that not only backup’s files and databases but also images all the critical servers and workstations in a company. It may be a little over kill but without the company data there would be no company. Consider the fact that hundreds of companies go out of business because they are not able to recover from the loss of company files. I recommend three layers of backups and imaging. The first backup is a disk to disk backup. The second is a tape or disk backup to be taken off site. This is a no brainer and you will be surprised how may companies I deal with choose not to take a backup offsite. The last backup would be an online backup and imaging. There are a lot of good online backup companies available and with the increase in bandwidth this option is becoming easier to provide. The price for the three layer backups and maintaining the backups can get financially costly. Remember that each layer of backup has a limitation. The disk to disk has the potential for the backups on the other disk to crash. The offsite backups while not at the company location can also get damaged. The online backup will have some restoration limitations and time constraints. If you would like to know more about a managed service backup plan contact me at FMiksiewicz@JunctionPC.com