Data Recovery
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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.
Following are some questions that should be answered in order to give you some idea of what you need to do to that will help you if you do have a data disaster situation.
Do you know the location of your company's most important data files?
Do they have backups, and by what means?
Are the backups verified and tested, and are they ran regularly?
Do you have automated controls that correctly and on a consistent basis 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 store your servers, routers, hubs, and phone system controllers in a locked area?
Who has access to your servers and other technology?
Do you run a locally securable operating system, such as Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows XP, or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4,on the company's desktop PCs and notebooks?
Is there any confidential data stored locally on any of the company's PCs or notebooks? Are these systems running a secure operating system such as the Microsoft Windows 9x or Microsoft Windows Me?
Do you use power-on passwords to avoid unauthorized boot-ups or tampering with BIOS configuration settings?
How do you keep your desktop PCs and notebooks updated?
So the thing is, you won't be able to predict when a data disaster will happen, but you can take steps to make it easier to fix.
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.
Following are some questions that should be answered in order to give you some idea of what you need to do to that will help you if you do have a data disaster situation.
Do you know the location of your company's most important data files?
Do they have backups, and by what means?
Are the backups verified and tested, and are they ran regularly?
Do you have automated controls that correctly and on a consistent basis 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 store your servers, routers, hubs, and phone system controllers in a locked area?
Who has access to your servers and other technology?
Do you run a locally securable operating system, such as Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows XP, or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4,on the company's desktop PCs and notebooks?
Is there any confidential data stored locally on any of the company's PCs or notebooks? Are these systems running a secure operating system such as the Microsoft Windows 9x or Microsoft Windows Me?
Do you use power-on passwords to avoid unauthorized boot-ups or tampering with BIOS configuration settings?
How do you keep your desktop PCs and notebooks updated?
So the thing is, you won't be able to predict when a data disaster will happen, but you can take steps to make it easier to fix.
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