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SMILE BUSINESS PRODUCTS, INC.
What is your IT Disaster Recovery Plan?
Y
ou can’t help think about the devas
tating impact the recent fires had on
businesses and individuals. Not only
can a fire be detrimental to your business
so can other disasters like malicious attacks
or an unmaintained network. These are all
reasons to prepare an IT Disaster Recovery
Plan. Be prepared!
What is a Disaster Recovery Plan?
A disaster recovery plan is a documented pro
cess or set of procedures to recover and protect
your business IT infrastructure in the event of
a disaster. The comprehensive plan consistents
of actions to be taken before, during and after
a disaster.
Here are basic considerations Smile imple-
ments when creating a database backup and
recovery plan:
DATA IMPORTANCE
How important is the information in your da
tabase for your company? For more important
and businesscritical data you will create a
plan that involves making extra copies of your
database over the same period and ensuring
that the copies can be easily restored when
required. For less important data (daily log
files), you can schedule a simple plan that does
not require frequent database backup and
recovery. Either way you’ll need to be sure that
your information is backed up and saved on a
regular basis.
FREQUENCY OF CHANGE
How often does your database get updated?
The frequency of change will directly influ
ence your decision on how often to back up
and recover your database. For instance, if
critical data is modified daily then you should
make a daily backup schedule to include
multiple backups.
SPEED
How much time do you need to back up or
recover your files? Recovery speed is an im
portant timerelated factor that determines the
maximum possible time period that could be
spent on basic data backup.
STORAGE
Where do you plan to store database dupli
cates? You may consider storing your database
copies offsite. This security measure will allow
you to recover your systems in case of a natural
disaster. Storing backups onsite is essential to
quickly restoring.
Case Study of Smile’s Disaster Recovery Plan
for our customers:
Smile’s engineers recommend that proce
dures are put in place to recovery and protect
businesses such as our customer Amy. A
welldesigned plan is critical, as Amy’s situa
tion illustrates:
Disaster stuck at the home of Amy C., a CPA
in Northern California. Amy’s home office
burned down.
Smile received a call from Amy to notify us of
the disaster and we started work immediately
to get Amy’s CPA firm back up and running.
Amy’s recovery plan included three levels of
protection to retrieve and restore all her data:
1. External Crash Plan offsite and Windows
back up for all data and files
3. Onsite Datto devise for all emails, data
and files
Of course, the onsite device was destroyed
in the fire, but we were able to retrieve all
her company data from our other two exter
nal sources.
That afternoon, Amy’s company was operating
again without losing any data, files or emails.
Within two weeks, Smile ordered, installed
and configured all her new equipment and
Amy’s CPA firm was back at full capacity in her
new office.
It gives our customers peace of mind to know
that Smile’s Disaster Recovery Plan protects
their company from any type of disaster.
$1.4m
is the average total cost of
damages and recovery for an
SMB incurred in a disaster.
48%
of SMBs have experienced data
loss as a result of improper
data backup and/or inadequate
disaster recovery plans.
25%
of SMBs are likely to declare a
disaster in any given five-year
period.
2. External Datto recovery for all emails, as
well as data and files
Managed IT Services
Contact Smile today and let us help you design a comprehensive plan for your business.
916.481.7695 | www.SmileBPI.com
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