Disaster Recovery Plans
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Do You Have Disaster Recovery Plans?
The definition of Disaster Recovery (DR) is “a set of policies, tools and procedures to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster.“
Natural disasters cannot be avoided but we can be prepared. Whether you’re in a flood zone, fire zone or just in a really bad place at a really bad time, there are few things you can do to recover your files, disks, photos, or important documents after a natural disaster. Lost data due to documents destroyed in a natural disaster or even lost because of negligence or bad management practices requires action and prepping before disaster strikes.
The development and implementation of a disaster recovery plan is imperative. Having a transformation strategy for converting paper documents to electronic records provides business continuity and loss of valuable data. DR plans often incorporate:
- Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) - how much data may be lost during recovery efforts.
- Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) - an estimate of how long it will take for normal operations to resume following a disastrous event.
- Remote Data Backups - creating a secondary, off-site backup of your most important data.
- Accountability Chart – naming who is responsible for enacting a disaster recovery plan and, having assigned roles and responsibilities to follow and enforcing a plan quickly and consistently.
- DR Plan Testing - plans often require frequent testing to ensure that RTOs and RPOs can be met in case of an actual emergency.
Digitizing paper documents is a best practice and one that will not only reduce the need to worry about paper recovery after a flood but will reduce the footprint (and costs) necessary to store and manage vast collections of content.
If your organization does not have a disaster recovery plan, call IST Management Services for assistance and guidance. We can help you prepare your document plan before the next disaster occurs.
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IST Management Services, Inc.
1341 Moreland Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30316