The Importance of a Computer Disaster Recovery Plan

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Computers )



You rely on your computer everyday and your business relies on your servers even more. Your servers store data like your clients’ orders, their personal information, your business’ financial information, your business applications, and a lot more crucial information. It would be very hard to recover from a computer disaster so it’s always good to be prepared for such an event with a computer disaster recovery plan.

Because of the advances of information technology, your computers and servers have become your filing cabinets on which years’ worth of company records and histories are stored. This is where you owe the smooth operations of your company. Now imagine that your server crashed and all those records went to waste and were never recovered.

A computer disaster recovery plan is necessary to ensure that the important information of your business is protected against any type of computer disasters. Computer disasters generally include electronic viruses or bugs that attack your vital information as well as weather and climate conditions that damage your hardware.

Once your data is corrupted by these bugs, or once your hardware is damaged beyond salvaging, you might as well say goodbye to your business because you’ll find it very hard to pull through, unless you have a computer disaster recovery plan, which is generally known as a computer data recovery plan.

Companies, especially those that rely on massive amounts of data for business operations, allot an enormous amount of resources for computer recovery plans. The usual computer disaster recovery plans of most companies are variants of the same recurring theme: backup.

Backing up data is crucial in any computer recovery plan. You need to have something to recover after disaster strikes. Therefore, the solution is simple, and that is to make as many copies of your databases as possible in a periodic and systematic manner.

Backing up important data must occur periodically so that your company is assured that the data you will be able to recover after the catastrophe would not be obsolete and would replace lost data without much difficulty.

It is also good to include in your computer disaster recovery plan that back up copies be stored somewhere away from your company premises. .

Of course, the best computer disaster recovery plan cannot replace preventive maintenance. With this, you should always scan your systems for any issues and store your hardware in calamity proof settings.


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