What Is Disaster Recovery Planning?

 




Disaster recovery planning refers to the steps taken to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster. A disaster may be a physical event like flooding or fire at your office or a digital event like a data breach or ransomware attack. Effective planning for disaster recovery involves minimising downtime and keeping as high a service level as possible for your customers during and after any disaster. The aim of effective disaster recovery is for a business or organisation to return to operating capability as soon as possible after a disaster.

The disaster recovery services required by a business will depend on its industry, staffing levels and what they consider an acceptable amount of downtime. Rather than a single product or service, a disaster recovery service includes a variety of services and products as well as the process of planning for disaster recovery.

For example; technologies like cloud backups let you retain an off-site copy of business-critical data, making it simple to recover your data in the event of a data breach. If your office becomes unavailable due to an incident like a fire or a power cut, VoIP phone lines help your staff connect with customers from any location and any device – facilitating working from home when needed.

Your own IT department or your managed IT services provider should have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan in place, with hardware and software solutions for a variety of common disasters as well as protocols designed specifically for you company or industry. Just as they would during a fire, each staff member should know what their role is in the event of a disaster and what part they will play in putting your disaster recovery plans into action.

 

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