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Data Backup and Recovery
When disasters happen, your entire company is at risk. Nobody likes to deal with business disasters, but they do and will happen. At DataGroup, we know that formulating a disaster recovery plan is one of the best things you can do to protect your business. Having a disaster recovery plan in place can get you back to business after an emergency.
What Is a Disaster Recovery Plan?
A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented strategy that describes how a business can quickly resume critical business functions after an unplanned incident. Disaster recovery is a critical part of a business continuity plan. A DRP is put in place to help businesses recover from data loss and system functionality issues following a crisis.
Why Is Disaster Recovery Important for Businesses?
If you’re a business owner without a disaster recovery plan in place, these statistics will make you reconsider.
- 20% of small to medium businesses with suffer a disaster, causing loss of critical data every five years.
- 70% of professionals have experienced data loss due to accidental deletion, system failure, viruses, fire or another disaster.
- After a disaster, 90% of smaller businesses fail within a year unless operations are resumed within 5 days.
Types of Disaster Recovery Plans
Virtualization DRP
Organizations can back up data on off-site virtual machines that are unaffected by physical disasters. Virtualization gives businesses the opportunity to implement disaster recovery more efficiently by eliminating lengthy recovery times.
Network DRP
The more complicated your company’s network is, the more complex your disaster recovery plan will need to be. Data in network disaster recovery plans are specific to the network, such as network performance.
Cloud DRP
Cloud disaster recovery provides flexibility. Cloud DR can range from a file backup to a complete replication. This method is space, time, and cost efficient. However, businesses need a reputable cloud provider to ensure top-level security.
Datacenter DRP
Risk assessments are a key component in datacenter DRPs. These assessments are used to analyze components such as datacenter location, power systems, security, and office space. The plan addresses a variety of potential scenarios.
Expert Data Recovery Services
Recovering your business data is our top priority. No recovery is too big or too small for our expert team.
Secure & Private
Keeping our clients’ data safe and confidential is top-of-mind at DataGroup. We frequently audit our security policies to ensure all data is safe from third-party access.
Trusted Experience
Our technicians are 100% certified. Our data recovery team undergoes extensive training. The success rates our technicians achieve are unparalleled.
Unmatched Service
Our customers’ trust and satisfaction is what we strive for. We assign a technician to each case to ensure that our clients always have access to the information they need.
FAQ
For reliable disaster recovery, you should back up your entire IT infrastructure. Your servers and PC’s contain vital data, and you will need to back it up for a full recovery.
Backing data up frequently ensures less data loss. However, the more often you back up, the more storage you’ll use. Different businesses will have different requirements, so it’s important to discuss your business continuity management with an IT professional.
Your disaster recovery strategy should evolve with your business processes. When developing an IT disaster recovery plan, consider these steps:
- Establish the scope of routine work
- Gather network infrastructure and access documents
- Identify hazards
- Review previous actions during data outages
- Develop emergency response team members
- Test your disaster recovery plan
- Make updates to the DRP as needed
Yes. You should test your plan on a quarterly basis. At the minimum, we recommend testing at least once a year.
Natural disasters, cyberattacks, data corruption, and human error are the main causes of lost data.
It is crucial to make sure your business data is backed up daily to avoid losing data. We also recommend using more than one backup method.
The answer, in most cases, is yes. While it is never possible to guarantee full recovery, very rarely have we not been able to recover data from computers that have been attacked by viruses.
When you work with DataGroup, your data is backed up to our 100% secure in-house datacenter.
