Fire, flooding or burglary: how does our data survive that?
One office, one server cabinet, one location = one single point of failure. The off-site copy is the only rescue here.
Try this first
- 1Inventory: where is everything physically? Production servers, backup server, company laptops. Often all in one building.
- 2Off-site must truly be off-site. An external drive in a drawer next to the server does not count. Cloud backup, replication to a data center, or a disk kept at home.
- 3Test the scenario on paper: 'the building is gone tomorrow'. What data do you still have? Can you run the business with it? How long until you are operational?
- 4Document a fallback location or cloud option for your team. People do not work without a laptop and internet. Having a 'work-from-home' emergency plan ready helps a lot.
When to bring us in
We build disaster-recovery plans for SMBs. Including a written runbook, tested cloud restore, and a list of fallback hardware. A day or two of work, refreshed yearly.
See also
- We have backups but we do not know if they workA backup that cannot be restored is not a backup. Testing matters as much as taking the backup.
- Suspected ransomware: what to do RIGHT NOWThe first 30 minutes are critical. One wrong move spreads the damage. Read before acting.
- Someone accidentally deleted an important folderUsually fine to recover. The trick: do not save anything new on that drive until you know how.
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