Disaster recovery

Disaster recovery is a company's set of rules and tools to ensure the recovery of data and continuation of business after a human-caused or natural disaster. These tools include having multiple backup points in different physical locations from which the company can pull critical business data. Having a recovery plan helps a company resume day-to-day operations with minimal time and data loss after a disaster.

Components of a disaster recovery plan

The components of a disaster recovery plan include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Ensure the safety of your employees.
• Research several options for a workspace should your main office be damaged.
• Make a list of critical job responsibilities.
• Make sure you have the necessary equipment for your employees to resume working. This equipment could include work stations, backup servers, phones, and other equipment essential to your company's workflow.
• For data recovery, you must ensure your work is stored either in parallel at a different, offsite location, or with a cloud storage company.

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