Data Recovery
Posted in Software on January 6th, 2012 by Richard Horowitz – Be the first to commentAre you quite sure that your knowledge about data recovery is accurate? Well here are the latest updates.
Sooner or later your company could become the victim of a natural disaster, or something much more common like a lightning storm or downed power lines.
Small companies aren’t exempted from data problems. Small businesses that do not have a good disaster recovery plan when such time comes may have a hard time to recuperate. Sometimes even a data recovery service is unable to be of any help.
Here are some questions that can give you an idea on what you should do if you encounter a data disaster.
Do you know where your company’s most important data files are located?
Do they have backups, and by what means?
How often do you run these data backups and are they verified and tested?
Do you make use of automated controls to consistently do the backups?
Do your data backup tapes go off-site and how often?
Do you have some kind of security against tampering or theft of your data backups?
Do you keep your servers, routers, hubs, and phone system controllers in locked areas to keep them more secure?
Who has access to your servers and other technology?
Do you use a locally securable operating systems like Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows XP, or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4 on the company desktop PCs and notebooks?
Do you have any confidential data stored locally on any desktop PCs or notebooks? Are any of these systems running an inherently in-secure operating system, such as Microsoft Windows 9x or Microsoft Windows Me?
Do you make use of power-on passwords to prevent any unauthorized tampering?
On your desktop PCs and notebooks, how are main updates, service packs and releases kept current?
The bottom line is that you can’t plan when a data disaster may strike but taking a few steps beforehand may help with your company’s survival in the days and weeks following a disaster.
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