Do you know the difference between disaster recovery and data backup?

Can you imagine any of these scenarios happening to your office?

• office building is flooded, or
• there is a global epidemic and you are forced to work from home
• power or network outages
• the worst-case scenario, what if there is an explosion
• what if the building has collapsed
• or perhaps there is a fire and your IT equipment gets destroyed

How fast would you be ready to work?

The data backup will help you have a copy of it but won’t guarantee the access to it.

You need to have a plan in place to be able to get the whole system up and running,

in order to continue running your business.

Apart from having a disaster recovery plan in place, you must test it!

It is not enough to do something and then hope for the best without checking it.

HOW TO BEST PREPARE FOR DISASTER RECOVERY

Preparing a backup routine is quite simple.

What you need to consider is RPO, which is a recovery point objective and data safekeeping requirements.

The complete recovery process, entails additional action steps, such as:

• deciding which systems are critical for running your business
• an order in which the system and data should get recovered
• setting up ways to communicate with your data
• determining what would be best method to carry out a recovery test

Having a disaster recovery plan in place, will minimise the risks of losing data

and maintain compliance with GDPR/data protection rules.

Data backup serves a different purpose.

Make sure you understand, which solution best fits your needs.