Best practices for recovery planning
The aforementioned processes that form part of the DR plan can achieve better results if certain best practices are followed. Here are the most important ones:
- Have an offsite location to store archived backups. The cloud is a ready-made solution for safe off-site storage.
- Keep recording any changes made to the IT infrastructure to ease the process of reviewing the suitability of the contingency plan against the new systems.
- Have proactive monitoring of IT systems so as to determine when a disaster is occurring early enough and be able to start the recovery process.
- Implement fault-tolerant systems that can withstand a certain degree of exposure to a disaster. Implementing a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) for servers is one way of achieving redundancy.
- Test the integrity of the backups that are made to ensure that they have no errors. It would be disappointing for an organization to realize after a disaster that...