How to Build Solid Business Backup & Disaster Recovery Plan

1. HOW TO BUILD SOLID BUSINESS BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN There are several kinds of catastrophic that are unavoidable and out of control. But, what is in your control is to plan for such events to ensure business safety. And the ideal way to do so is by creating a disaster recovery plan that can be used in case of office mishaps, virus attacks, or physical damage to storage systems due to natural disasters or accidents.    For instance, fire incidents may leave your systems and data both vulnerable to significant loss. Fortunately, it is possible to grab a new piece of hardware, but critical business information stored in those systems is priceless. For this, there is a genuine need for businesses to create a business recovery plan. Do you know that around 25% of companies fail to respond to a drastic disaster? And still, 74% of businesses lack a proper disaster recovery plan, which can put the business to higher risk. List down your recovery plan by keeping tour IT infrastructure in mind 1. Recovery Point Objective (RPO). RPO defines the amount of data you are prepared to lose. Your most sensitive information can be given greater importance, but less valuable details such as My Pictures, Sounds, etc. can be lost. You can put customer data at the top of the list, while marketing data may be lower. For this, our Microsoft Office experts can gauge the scope of recovery and ensure putting the best disaster recovery plan in place using O365 backup solutions. 2. Recovery Time Objection (RTO). RTO weighs how long without your data, you are prepared to be. You may choose to lose up to two hours of company operations, depending on your business as you need to choose the downtime. A shorter duration will generate more costs, so you have to take reasonable account of your choices.

2. 3. Staffing. Identify key staff people who need to have data all the time without any compromises. It speaks of data sensitivity as such a situation may often demand to place Azure IaaS solution in your IT infrastructure. If one loses access to data, how soon should they be able to retrieve, and who should be the one leading this? Human interventions are unavoidable, so you will need to have a disaster recovery process that minimizes such dependency. Step by Step Disaster Recover Solution Implementation Step One: Conducting Asset Inventory Survey You must first know what data assets you have and what impact it will have on your business if it goes down. Your critical assets are databases, storage devices, software, essential business information, network hardware, and network equipment. Know how your IT infrastructure has an ecosystem of dependencies in terms of data connections.   Step Two: Identifying Your Critical Systems There are some things on which your business relies to run smoothly in this asset-list. The website is vital for an e-commerce store. CAD and CAM systems are essential for a manufacturer. In the same company, different business divisions can have different critical systems. When you can bring together your stakeholders, decide what is important as these processes need close tracking to prioritize systems saving in case of a disaster.   Step Three: Define Your Metrics Now is the time to evaluate the organization's RPO and RTO as discussed above. It is a way to maintain metrics for the entire organization, but you also have to apply them to each system. Even systems not considered critical to businesses should have recovery metrics. Choose ExpandForce's cloud computing services that help strike a reasonable balance between cost and complexity through efficient DRaaS. We leverage the Microsoft Azure Platform and utilize Azure IaaS backup solution to build plans for disaster recovery quickly.   How about knowing a bit more about it directly from experts? Connect with ExpandForce's Disaster Recovery experts and discuss your plan to get started