Backups/Disaster Recovery

Your entire business could be destroyed by a fire, flood or tornado in a matter of minutes.  If you do not have a good disaster plan, the years of hard work building your business could all be lost.

Today you need to be doing more than just copying your data to another hard disk or backing up to a tape or another type of removable media. You must make sure that these backups are good and that they are stored off-site.  You should have a media rotation plan that will allow you store the most recent 5 days of backups, 4 weeks of weekly backups and 12 months of month end backups.

To effectively accomplish this, you will probably need more than one type of media.  For example, storing monthly backups would probably be best accomplished on CD or DVD's.  Weekly backups might be best stored on Removable disk cartridges and your daily backups stored both locally on a workstation hard disk and uploaded to a remote storage site.

This type of plan will allow the fastest possible restore, because it is stored locally and on one of the fastest storage devices available (hard disk) and at the same time give you peace of mind that the backups are stored off-site.

Contact PCS and allow us to evaluate your needs and design a customer disaster recovery plan for your business.