Without Disaster Recovery Your Business Is At Risk

For any shrewd business, it is very important to be able to plan for unexpected events to occur. Disaster Recovery is similar to buying insurance for your company; we all dislike paying for insurance, but if the unexpected happens, we are thankful that we took out that insurance plan!

In business, there are many more variables to take into account. Because of the wide-open nature of most business nowadays, it is more difficult to cover all of the contingencies and for this main reason it is important that any disaster recovery plan be flexible enough to be used in more than one situation. Most businesses will not get very far in trying to predict the types of disasters that might occur and indeed most businesses don't even try to do that. The best disaster recovery plans are the ones that are able to be utilized regardless of the specifics of the disaster itself.

Disaster Recovery is actually just a very small portion of a larger plan that businesses need to have. A business contingency plan covters all aspects of a particular business and with a detailed contingency plan, your business is more likely to perform better in the long-term, than companies that have no disaster contingency plan.

Disaster Recovery in More Detail

So what makes a good disaster recovery plan? There are many important things to consider when creating a disaster recovery plan. Some of these vital thoughts are detailed below.

Versatility: One of the oldest jokes in the book is about the person who had a contingency plan for his own contingency plan. Although it may appear to be slightly redundant, this is one area where you business should have redundancy. If an unexpected situation occurs that bypasses or otherwise renders ineffective your initial contingency plan, it is very important to have another contingency plan to turn to. Some owners may be loathe to spend the extra money to come up with an additional contingency plan, but remember the insurance comparison from the start of this article; contingencies are either annoying or a Godsend depending on what happens to you.

Flexibility: If you are determined to only have one disaster recovery plan, then it needs to be flexible. Recovering data and other potential losses in the event of a disaster is something that all businesses think about, but only a truly flexible disaster recovery plan, with no disaster specific (i.e. organising for a particular disaster) backup procedures in place, will be ready for the unexpected and act according to the situation. These types of plans are extremely difficult to create, which is why the versatility of multiple contingency disaster recovery plans is more desirable.

Final Remarks

However you decide to go about doing disaster recovery, be sure that you understand what it is you want to recover in the event of a disaster taking place and make sure that your plan is complete in that regard.

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