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1. Ten Tips for Successful
IT Disaster Recovery Planning
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2. Information technology plays a vital role in the operations of most
businesses. It is the means by which they survive. It should not be
surprising that because of this situation, all businesses desperately need
to have disaster recovery plans in place. Here are ten tips to successfully
plan for disaster recovery.

3. Develop a plan.
Start with the basics and
then determine what is most
important and go from there.
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4. Monitor your plan.
Once you have the plan, monitor
it to make sure it is still up to date
and functional.
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5. Test Your Plan.
Perform regular tests to make
sure the plan still works.
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6. Back-up your data.
Perform off-site data back-up and
storage. Don't rely on simply on-site
backups, but have off-site backups
as well.
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7. Perform data
restoration tests.
Make sure data can be recovered if
it is lost by restoring documents from
a previous time.
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8. Back-up laptops
and desktops.
Don't rely only on network shares,
but also help users who store files
on their laptops and/or desktops.
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9. Be redundant.
Have multiple backups of files for
faster recovery and to insure that
you don't rely on a single copy.
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10. Invest in your plan.
Invest in theft recovery and data delete
solutions for laptops. Increasingly mobile
staff means more likelihood that
information may be lost or stolen.
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11. Install regular virus
pattern updates.
Protect email, data, and systems by
installing regular virus pattern updates as
part of disaster recovery planning.
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12. Consider hiring a managed
services provider team.
These service providers can build shared, multi-
tenant IT infrastructures that host multiple companies
on the same hardware and network equipment which
helps keep costs affordable and advantageous for its
customers.
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