It’s something you never like to think about, but disasters happen, and you can’t ignore them. When something bad happens to your home, you have insurance to help you pay to fix the issues. When something terrible happens to the data you store at your office—like the building burning down or a tornado ripping it apart—no amount of money can help you get that data back. That’s why cloud backup services exist, and why those services can offer you disaster recovery plans that will keep your business up and running.
But how does disaster recovery actually work?
Part of Your Plan
Every business should have plans in place for what happens if a disaster occurs. In that plan, there should be a section that details what employees should do in the event of a disaster, how to keep the business running, and how to restore data to those employees as necessary.
At the first sign of a disaster, you should contact your cloud backup provider and inform them of the situation. They will assist you in carrying out the portion of your plan that will get data back in your hands.
Your System
Of course, if your data gets destroyed, there’s a good chance that computers that would normally be used to recover that data get destroyed as well. Having a plan in place to get computers back in the hands of employees is important. A possible option is finding a business that will loan out their spare computers and empty desks when they are needed. This could be in the form of a mutual agreement with another business.
That said, your employees still need to have access to your company data. This is why having a cloud backup provider that can allow access to your servers and data remotely is key. If you plan for disaster recovery in advance it makes the process much smoother.
Restoration
Once your equipment is back in place, your cloud backup provider should be able to restore your data at any time. Depending on the type of backup option you chose originally, restoration can happen in a number of ways. For example, echopath is able to offer Virtual Data Recovery for clients that operate in VMware environments. Your cloud backup provider should be able to offer you a unique recovery solution based on your specific situation.