Backup And Recovery

We see disk failures every month and fate usually dictates that they are the ones without a backup. Without planning for "disaster recovery" you may find your company and your customers are seriously threatened. Farmore IT can help you to devise a backup procedure which will guard against threats such as a virus attack, disk failure, fire/theft/flood, and human error.

The main areas to look at regarding backup are:

• How regular should the backups be (i.e., how much can I afford to lose? An hour, a day, a week?)
• Are backups taken off site (to guard against theft, fire and flood?)
• Do the backups actually work? Often we find that people run backups for years and assume they are covered but when disaster strikes they discover that the backups will not restore correctly.
• Do you have all the information to hand to allow a quick resolution during the 'stress' of a disaster.

Often a professional disaster recovery plan is required by insurance companies and larger business as a pre-requisite.